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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: Confused |
Bible Note: Jcsav Your question "Do you think they all had many different beliefs?" I'm not sure they had different belief as much as different attitudes. There is a difference. An attitude will allow you to tolerate something you know is wrong. A belief is what you hold to be truth. I see both of these in the church today, false beliefs and lousy attitudes. Both are serious conditions but false beliefs usually require deception where lousy attitudes are usually the result of apathy. Denominational differences are more belief oriented than attitude so I don't think this is what Jesus was addressing. I think the churches mentioned in Revelations were of the same denomination but held entirely different attitudes. They were allowing things to take place in their church that shouldn’t be named among Christians. They weren’t so much deceived as they were tied up in apathy saying, “yes it is wrong but let someone else handle it.” What we are discussing is beliefs. The various denominational beliefs I believe are deceptions birthed in pride. At around the time of Reformation man decided he was pretty “neat” and we entered the era of Enlightenment. Man decided he could and would decide for himself the things that would effect him. He even took this attitude with scripture. Man no longer needed any religions training, understand of the original languages, no longer needed to consult historical perspectives and accounts, no longer needed traditions and rituals. Man himself would sit down read the Bible and decide for himself what it meant and how it applied to his life. While each man claimed to only allow the Bible to formulate his opinions and options we see in reality man reached 1000’s of opinions or options we now call denominations. We can see that while the term sola scriptura has a noble ring man with his biases, prejudices, opinions, beliefs is unable to do what he claims. Another thing that came into being around the time of age of Enlightenment was man’s decision to be the captain of his own destiny. No man was going to tell him about anything. Therefore there was this growing resentment against the church often expressed as, “who were they to tell me what to believe. They are just men like me they put on their pants one leg at a time.” This sounds good and is something we often rally too today. However looking at the truth we see these men they refused to listen too were men that dedicated they entire lives doing nothing but searching the scriptures for the truth. Getting back on subject many of prohibitions we discuss today weren’t made out of political correctness or some underlying motive, but rather by years of study. Study of ancient records, study of collections of verbal statements contributed to the Apostles, actual teachings handed down from the apostles, and a through study of scripture. People often choose to reject this process saying that is not what scripture says to me. Therefore declaring their righteous ability to judge for themselves what God is saying. In fact the standard in not God but rather the standard is what they can make God say. EdB |