Posted on 08/21/2006 5:51:49 PM PDT by Bob J
In earlier news it was reported that a Baptist Sunday school teacher of 54 years was let go from her position because "My belief is that the qualifications for both men and women teaching spiritual matters in a church setting end at the church door, period," the Pastor was quoted as saying.
Apparently in a letter sent to the teacher earlier in the month they qouted from First Timothy Two, 11-14 "A woman should learn in quietness and full submission. I do not permit a woman to teach or to have authority over a man, she must be silent."
This news was posted on FR here and here.
It's an interesting topic considering the current discussions regarding Sharia law and the treatment of women in Islam. Some FReepers were shocked and others appeared to support the policy based on scripture interpretation.
What is your opinion?
Are you a FREE Baptist as your name implies? I haven't heard of that one. Of course it may just mean something else. I was a Freewill Baptist most of my life, not anymore.
There are still plenty of folks out there who condemn it as extra-Biblical.
Do not tell this to the Felician nuns who had K-8 or the Christian Brothers who handled 9-12.
Great group of people.
To me that is such backward thinking. How do you explain the angel at the empty tomb instructing Mary Magdalene to go tell what she saw? I guess she only told other women and children?
Not even worth the argument. Sorry.
I fear you are dwelling on the metaphorical use of the term and not the reality.
Was it an apple in the tree, or a pair on the ground???
"Its a Sunday school class. Adult men don't attend Sunday school class."
That's odd I at sixty one years was in a Sunday school class this past Sunday with several men and women. Our regular teacher is a man and we have two subs who are both women. They all do a darn good job. United Methodist
To the topic at hand, I am not versed in the theology being discussed, but as a little girl, in a Catholic school, I remember the great irony I felt when the snarky boys in my class got to be altar boys; while the Sisters (who by my assessment at that early age) had devoted their lives to their faith and their Church couldn't enter the Sacristy area. Gladly (IMO) the Catholic church changed that way of thinking. Anyway, I hope this woman (the teacher in question) finds a church that she can fully participate in.
It is a free country, and people can say whatever nonsense they want.
However to say you're led by the Holy Spirit to disobey holy Scripture is serious nonsense indeed.
The test of Spirit led leadership is whether or not it agrees with the Bible. Women in authority and teaching men does not...unless you want to say the Apostle Paul was wrong. If you do say that, please don't claim to be a Christian--as Christians must obey God first in His word.
That's not my understanding of what Sunday School is.
The term snake handlers is used to refer to people who are backward in their religious thinking.
Well, Bob, what does the Bible say about the matter?
The body of Christ, which is the church, is constantly referred to as the Bride of Christ in Scripture.
There are probably several dozen structures described or recommended, but the big ones are the Garden of Eden, Noah's Ark, and the Genealogies.
The Tower of Babel might be one but a lot of it is "lost".
There are people who believe these techniques for memorizing religious lessons and histories are actually moral lessons in and of themselves. Combined with a believe in literalist inerrency they get into these little contests of retromangancy. Even St. Paul put in his two cents worth and misused allegories to keep women in their place (if, in fact, St. Paul actually wrote those words and they weren't simply something added by a rabbi of his day disquieted about Christianity's liberalism).
Jesus was making a comment about "marriage" in an age when it was your only "social safety net" ~
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