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?
Poll's Over, we have a winner!
And, God's Word where He says "rapture"? What's the cite on that one ~ use any translation you want.
And, God's Word where He says "rapture"? What's the cite on that one ~ use any translation you want.
Okay, I've got your number. You don't believe the Bible anyway, and simple words (1 Tim. 2:14 - "NOT deceived") don't even have the same dictionary meanings to you, evidently, so it's not even worth a discussion on the matter with you. I haven't been able to keep up with the entire thread, but I'm guessing now that even a liberal wouldn't find a discussion on Bible matters to be profitable with you. Have a nice life.
At the same time they should let everybody who might be tempted to come in the front door know that they've become an Apostolic church and are no longer Baptist.
The dictionary definition of deception applies too both Adam and Eve as I pointed out.
No, the Baptist Sunday School classes I've been in where women have come in and taught have gone downhill. The men shut up, and eventually quit coming and it ends up being run by all women.
If not literal, then the Bible means only what any individual wants it to mean, so none of these discussions matter anyway.
The Bible indicates when figures of speech are being employed. Otherwise, the words should be believed by their normal-literal interpretation.
Women need enough chain to get from the laundry room to the kitchen, to the bedroom!!
"...activists more than theologians."
Correct. Female pastors are just like females at presidential press conferences, most female news anchors and most female Congress members. Activists.
What a dumb question.
Of course.
The word that you fail to understand is "NOT." (1 Tim. 2:14)
Regarding posts number 350 and 378:
We know that the early disciples met in the Temple, in homes, by the rivers, and in upper rooms. Corinthians tells us of meetings in public and in private. The early Christians met daily (often in the evening, after work and continued late into the night) and, sometimes, on the first day of the week. We know that at times they each voted, sometimes decisions were made by throwing lots and sometimes they held councils - most notably, the council at Jerusalem whose requirements are laid out in Acts 15.
We know that there continued to be bickering and that some even embraced Gnosticism in binding more than the simple Good News on others in actions, or by claiming one teacher superior to another. We know that even Paul and Peter had very public disputes. In other words, they continued to be human.
However, Paul, John and Peter agreed that we have a new law in Christ, that nothing God cleansed is unclean, that we should love one another and protect the weakest among us from stumbling. We know that we have been reconciled to God, by God, and that we and all of our brothers and sisters in Christ were "circumcised by Christ, and not with hands." We are in Christ, covered by Christ, and His Spirit dwells next to ours.
No one should seek to be first, no one is to be domineering, and we should all submit ourselves one to the another. It's the disputes that are a shame.
Good post. Good spirit. Thanks
This thread is filled with "white washed tombs".
I love weaving with cotton, too.
But a bit of other fiber with it can make it wear longer.
The prohibition has long been a big puzzle to me.
Will be interesting to understand the whys of a lot of things in Heaven.
Joyce Meyer can clean one's clock to good edification and Spirit Led results quite regularly.
And, it's clear it comes out of hard personal experience, study and even humility. Some people seem to find it hard to see her humility. She's got a very strong personality. But she's been broken more than a few times.
Broken bread and poured out wine is best with either sex in any role . . . in The Body.
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