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NASB | 1 Timothy 2:12 But I do not allow a woman to teach or exercise authority over a man, but to remain quiet. |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | 1 Timothy 2:12 I do not allow a woman to teach or exercise authority over a man, but to remain quiet [in the congregation]. |
Subject: Women starting churches....???? |
Bible Note: You are right about Martin Luther's focus on "the just shall live by faith". Yes he got that from God, but so did all the Catholic Church before him, we shouldn't be willing to say they didn't get ift from God because they didn't focus it as well and they didn't dwell on it as much. On the contrary, they demonstrate that while having it from God they in no way understood its real central meaning in the body of Paul's letter as well as Luther. Or even if a few did, they didn't have the strength of character or especially the call from God to pursue the truth of it. But they had the truth, and they got it from God just like Luther could get it. Getting things in context is what you and I and everyone else do when we assign a meaning to something. The problem occurs when the actual effort has been short-cutted or not done at all. Even then, we assign a meaning to something and it now receives meaning for our purpose to use it over the author's purpose to use it. How can we have that right? This leads to disorder and God's Holy Word being made non-sense. Now, some might say wait a minute I thought we are to live by faith like Daniel or Paul etc. enough of this textual stuff, that's just too much scholarship and it isn't about that. True it is not really about scholarship at all, it is about a living Spirit and who is He and what has He done? So, while one can get caught up in the logos I and lose the rhema, it won't happen if you are reading with the indwelling Spirit of God. Don't every worry about that. In fact the surest way to open ourselves up to the indwelling Spirit of God to lead us into all clarity of Bible study is to value the logos. We become even more able to listen to His promptings (yeah they are sometimes to read a lot more, which I too often shrink away from, but don't want to). Regarding women starting churches, I want to first of all state that if it really is an outgrowth of men neglecting the gift within them, then I never have believed that it is just a sin only. But in our day of Evangelical Feminism and such other oddities, I don't believe that the largest reason for the phenomenon is men not developing their gifts. But that is a concern for me and I would never want to let all the men think that they can just sit on their gift. |