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NASB | 1 Timothy 2:11 A woman must quietly receive instruction with entire submissiveness. |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | 1 Timothy 2:11 A woman must quietly receive instruction with all submissiveness. |
Subject: Is God so shortsighted? |
Bible Note: Tim in context with this question is the question of women in ministry. Prayon said that this verse was not establishing doctrine but was merely correcting a problem within a local congregation. You agreed or so I thought. So I asked you the question do you think God to be so short sighted that he failed to include the needed information to correctly determine if this text was in fact stating doctrine or was just correcting a local situation? I'm not trying to put you on the spot but I think we have to face this issue. By saying God didn’t mean what he said, and you have to understand the situation and this is really what he meant is now opening the doors for all kinds of problems. Anybody that can make a plausible if not provable argument can now cast a shadow on almost any verse of scripture. We are seeing it beginning to happen with the homosexuals, they are saying the prohibition against homosexuality found in the bible isn’t that. They say it was included to stop male temple prostitution that God created homosexuals and they have been used through out history for God’s glory. Then they ask did God create second class citizens, in an effort to level the PC field. I’m certainly not trying to put women in ministry in the same light as the sin of homosexuality, but if we are going to apply outside standards to interpret one verse can we prevent another from applying outside standards to another? See where this leads where do we stop? I think we have to get back to a strict literal interpretation to avoid even more insidious conflicts in the future. |