Prior Book | Prior Chapter | Prior Verse | Next Verse | Next Chapter | Next Book | Viewing NASB and Amplified 2015 | |
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: Biblical - women preachers/teachers??? |
Bible Note: Justme I have said it before and I will say it again, God will accomplish his desire whether men cooperate or not. In other words if a man won't do it God will use a woman. This is proven in the story of Deborah. Let us address some issues you raised, ‘A woman that is pastoring a church and it is growing and she is preaching the word’. Was she called? Possibly when no man would accept the call of God. Was this God’s highest and best? No, this isn’t what God desired. You point to growth, but is growth and indicator of anything? I don’t think it is. I know some churches that preach the word and experience no growth, yet we see the Mormons growing by leaps and bounds. If there is growth is God blessing the woman’s work? Yes God could be doing just that or he could be blessing the people. However growth doesn’t prove we are in God’s will. I know a man that was heavy into pornography yet he pastored a church. His church was, the moving shaking church of the area, experiencing nearly a hundred fold growth every two or three year. Here is a pastor was visiting prostitutes, watching child porn, aberrant porn (if you can make the distinction) yet his church was overshadowing every church in the area. This man certainly wasn’t in God’s will. Nor do I believe he had a call. Another aspect we have to look at how many attended just because there was a woman pastor? Some people are actually attracted to the abnormal. Also how many women that have an upside down relationship in their home insisted their family support this liberated church? How many families turned away from this church because they saw it as out of order. Of the men that attended how was their home life, were they the leaders of the house or not? These are all things that we don’t know the answer to, yet we have God’s word. God through Paul said man should be head. I have sat under some excellent teaching that examined man’s and women’s thought processes. The two genders function and think about different things. Men tend to be more suspicious, harder to convince and harder to deceive particularly by close friends or relatives. Many believe these difference is God engineered to make a couple even more functional. However it has also been noticed that when the woman is the dominate in the relationship many of these benefits are lost. I believe the same principals apply in a church leadership. Man was originally ordered to keep or guard the garden, while he reneged on his obligation, he was the one God had equipped and therefore used for this job. Men today have that same equipping to guard or oversee the church if they fail at their obligation God may use a woman but that wasn’t that plan. There are many other issues that develop such as man’s tendency to let their minds wonder to other less productive things when women are speaking. Not to mention authority fixation and other tendencies that occur between Pastor and congregations. I'm not trying make excuses for the Bible nor am I trying to justify the Bible. I'm simply giving facts that bear out what the Bible says, and why I believe what is stated in the Bible means exactly what it says. EdB |