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Subject: Is God so shortsighted? |
Bible Note: Greetings Nolan! Thanks for the kudos! My car definitely needs your prayers! I promised EdB that I would do some research on 1 Tim. 2:11-12. I am getting a headache! Everyone has a totally different spin on it. I think I am going to nominate this passage for the most confusing passage of the year award. However, I am learning a lot. The biggest surprize that I've had so far is that the word "to have authority" over a man in v. 12 is only used once in all of Scripture. It seems to have the meaning of "dominate," perhaps even by force. One other possible meaning is that of "originate." This leads to some interesting possiblities. It may have been that some women in Ephesus were teaching a Gnostic heresy that women were the originators of men and that Paul was countering this with his discussion of Adam and Eve. I still have a lot of research to do, but the view (so far) that I think makes the best sense of all the data is that Paul was forbidding wives to have authority over their husbands. However, I am not ready to commit! Thanks also for the support of inerrancy! I have been dismayed over the years to find that Christians are steadily watering down this belief. I went to a solid evangelical Christian college and actually had to defend myself (even there) for believing in inerrancy. Your Brother in Christ and fellow Hoosier, Tim Moran |