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AMPLIFIED 2015 | Titus 2:4 so that they may encourage the young women to tenderly love their husbands and their children, |
Subject: Does God ordain women bishops? |
Bible Note: WalkingTalkingBible I'm not going to delve into your question at this point. But I will make this observation. While it is common to dismiss 1 Corinthians 14 as correcting a problem in the Corinthian church it doesn't make sense to include that correction in the Bible unless it still pertained to the church today. Now if it does pertain to the church today how do we reconcile it to the rest of the Bible? Perhaps the old story of women shouting out questions to their husbands in the church wasn't in fact the case. Perhaps that is a PC answer invented to get people that live off the tithe off the hook. Perhaps the problem was universal and could happen today as easily as it happened in the church of Cornish. Perhaps the problem wasn’t mechanics of the questions but rather the content and public nature of such questions. Perhaps the wives (and I use wives here since this passages is directed not to women but to wives) were asking questions in a way that embarrassed their husband either out of ignorance or as an act of revenge or rebellion. They did this by asking questions that any good Jewish husband and priest of his family should have already instructed his family on. Thus he would look slothful or uncaring about his families spiritual well being and hence the shame. If this is in fact the case then this text falls into place Paul is telling wives in Corinthian church and also the church today not to bring public shame unto their husbands either out of revenge or perhaps ignorance on their part but be submitted keeping quiet and asking any potentially embarrassing types of question at home. I have seen wives, I won’t speculate on motive, ask questions that proved to be very embarrassing to their husbands. It brought shame to the husband and put real strain on the marriage and more than once cause turmoil in the church. Don’t be too eager to dismiss a passage as not pertaining to us today because it appears to be only addressing an issue of the day. EdB |