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NASB | 1 Timothy 2:11 A woman must quietly receive instruction with entire submissiveness. |
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Subject: Is God so shortsighted? |
Bible Note: In total agreement with you, Tim. We simply must gather all the information that is available on difficult passages such as the Timothy passage on women and the church. While no one can lay a legitimate claim that extra-biblical historical sources are divinely inspired, even we who believe in the errancy of Scripture do Scripture no disservice by availing ourselves of whatever historical documents there are extant that shed background on Bible times, people, places, laws, societal mores, etc. Secular history is far more expansive on these topics than the Bible generally is. The Bible was never meant to be, and certainly isn't, a comprehensive history of the world. Every single book of the Bible was written at a certain time and place, and in a certain culture and setting. Therefore, the more one can learn of the environment and the circumstances that may have been peculiar to that book, the better position we find ourselves in to understand and appreciate what it is saying. In saying this I do not take away the absolute necessity for the guidance and direction of the Holy Spirit in leading us to know the truth of Scripture. But the Scriptures also command us to exert all effort -- to be dilgent as a workman -- to handle accurately the word of truth (2 Tim.2:15) Perhaps a little "fear and trembling" is involved in this too..... This is a complex issue about women's role in the church. In our society it has become quite an item of debate and controversy. It's easy enough to shrug off the subject as being a non-issue by saying simply, "Oh, it applied to them back there in the first century, but it doesn't apply to us today." This careless disregard for the authority and aptness of Scripture is, I fervently submit, one of the major causes of so much outright apostacy in the church in our time..... I think this passage in Timothy has a broader application than merely one place and one time. Paul ties it in with verses 13 and 14 of 1 Tim. 2. It is connected inextricably to God's design, not man's, for the separate roles of male and female from creation itself. God created man for certain roles and women for certain roles. One is no more important than the other. It is simply God's plan. And it's hard to tag God as a chauvinist. --Hank |