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NASB | 1 Timothy 2:11 A woman must quietly receive instruction with entire submissiveness. |
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Bible Question (short): WOMEN IN MINISTRY - PART 1 |
Question (full): "The Lord Our God is One" -- "There is no hierarchy in heaven," Yes there is God the Father, Jesus the Son, and the Holy Spirit. But"Jesus prayed in John Chapter 17 that, "...we might be one, as we (I and the Father) are one. We are his body, and we are one with him." It has seemed that for many years through man's interpretation of 2 Tim 2:11-14 that women are to be separated from the body and made second-class citizens. "This may bring a little more light on those remarks. CAN WOMEN TEACH? After presenting the commonly accepted "rules of interpretation," used for nearly 2500 years by legal experts to more accurately understand Scripture, there were many Scriptures wherein Paul actually instructed women to teach (Titus 2:3; "...Bid the older women...to give good counsel and be teachers of what is right and noble), and also the fact that Paul admonishes us all to seek prophecy and to prophesy. It was a man and a woman who first beheld the infant Jesus with the eyes of faith, and were led to prophesy about His future work as Savior. (Simeon and Anna) But the real meat of this teaching was about Paul's admonition in 1Timothy 2: 11-14, where it has been interpreted for more than 2000 years that women were to be silent in the church. However, translators have ignored the current social situation at that time, and the cultural context of the letter. "This is a crucial point. At the time this letter was written, Ephesus was the world center of paganism, ruled by a mother goddess name Artemus (Diana). The key elements of this pagan culture was: 1) they worshipped a female deity; 2) the doctrine of this cult was the teaching of female superiority and domination over men; 3) the teaching of female procreation -- the belief that this goddess could bring forth offspring without the help of a male. The cult was characterized by sexual perversion, fertility rites, myths, elaborate genealogies where people would trace their lineage through their mothers line instead of through the fathers. There was magic, sorcery, and all manner of demonic activity. When the women involved in these cults converted to Christianity, they had to unlearn all these pagan practices. Unfortunately, these deluded, deceived, untaught women, believing they possessed a special kind of hidden knowledge, taught doctrines based on myths, speculations, and fables. Literally, doctrines of demons. And because of their belief in acquiring divine union through fornication, their teaching often included an offering of sexual favors to complete the "transition togodliness." As if this wasn't bad enough, there was also a large contingent of Jewish Gnostics who had settled in Ephesus. The equivalent of today's New Age, they had their own spirit guides who taught them, mixing the teachings of Artemus with the doctrines of demons, with a little Old Testament thrown in for good measure. One of their favorite stories was told about Adam and Eve and the serpent in the Garden. In this twisted storytelling, Lucifer was made out to be the savior, and God the inferior being, who by the way, "made a mistake when he created the natural world." In this storytelling, the serpent becomes the revealer of truth who brings "true knowledge." The Greek word for knowledge is "gnosis," from which we derive gnosticism. Also in this story, Eve becomes the illuminator because "she is the first to receive this true knowledge from the serpent and she becomes the teacher of this new revelation to Adam." This gnostic cult began to infiltrate the church and to teach that Eve being the mother of all was the progenitor of the human race, and that Adam came later from Eve and was in fact not her husband, but her son. Given this spiritual climate in Ephesus, to say that Timothy had a real mess on his hands would be an understatement. Paul knew well of the spiritual climate there, once causing mass rioting there when he himself brought the Word of God to this city. But in his letter to Timothy, it is precisely this atmosphere of demonic doctrine and fable that Paul was warning about. Paul was primarily encouraging Timothy and authorizing him to preach against these false teachers and their doctrines. The entire letter is soaked in this theme, beginning and ending like bookends with instructions to halt the spread of false doctrines. In Chapter 1, verse 3, Paul tells Timothy, "...stay where you are at Ephesus in order that you may warn and admonish and charge certain individuals not to teach any different doctrine." And ending with Chapter 6, verse 20, "...turn away from the irreverent babble and godless chatter, with the vain and empty and worldly phrases, and the subtleties and the contradictions in what is falsely called knowledge and spiritual illumination |
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