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NASB | Hebrews 1:1 God, after He spoke long ago to the fathers in the prophets in many portions and in many ways, |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | Hebrews 1:1 God, having spoken to the fathers long ago in [the voices and writings of] the prophets in many separate revelations [each of which set forth a portion of the truth], and in many ways, |
Subject: Should the community history be consider |
Bible Note: Hi, Cuddle! The Bible is the proper place to find out what we are to believe (doctrine) and what we are to do (practice). So you are right to seek in it guidance for your question. I believe someone else, recently, touched on this very topic in the same way you have done. The event you refer to are found in Matthew 28:7 and Mark 16:7. These passages relate the story of how the women -- the two Mary's and Salome, per Mark 16:1 -- were instructed by the angel to carry the news to Christ's disciples (and especially Peter) that He had risen. Cuddle, the type of passage we are talking about is what is called narrative. Narrative explains what happened, when, and to whom. Think of it as history. As a general rule we do not build doctrine or practice from narrative. (We would never, for example, say that we should get water by striking a rock (Numbers 20;11); that we should sacrifice an animal in thanksgiving to God (Leviticus 7:15); that we should pay our taxes by looking for money inside a fish (Matthew 17:27); etc. Those are a few examples off of the top of my head, but I think you can think of many more.) Also, even if we could assert that women were commissioned to teach from these passages , what sort of commission would we see from Luke 13:32? :-) I believe that what the women were asked to do was not teaching. It was simply carrying a message. A momentous one, to be sure! But it would be unwarranted, even if it were not for the reasons given above, for us to place so much significance on this event. One of my professors calls this, "Placing more weight on a text than it can bear." We do have didactic passages -- that is, passages given for instruction to the church -- about women and teaching. Those are in the epistles. If we are to build doctrine and practice on anything, we should build them from there. God has taken care to tell us what to believe and what to do. In Him, Doc |