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To: Motherbear
Perhaps you missed my earlier posts about my husband and home. Please go back and read it.

And perhaps you are also drawing a conclusion based on a, b, c, and d, that doesn't add up to the position you THINK it adds up to.

The creation of Adam first, and the selection of men as his apostles doesn't logically lead to a position that women should not be leaders in their respective churches. The cultural factors involved with uneducated (and sometimes rowdy) women in the early church are also left out of your equation.

I believe in God given male leadership. That is without question. But I also know that God has given women gifts to be used for HIM that cannot be used by rigid, and sometimes thoughtless conclusions of certain individuals, from their own particular interpretation as to what the individual verses mean.

I have heard in the past, preachers beat women over the head with submission to their husbands based on a verse in Ephesians, while completely ignoring the man's responsibility to love as Christ loved the church in the same passage. It used to be the standard interpretaion of marriage among fundamentalist. The man was boss, the 'little woman' should obey him........and they based it on the 'bible.'

All I am saying is that it is wisest to interpret such verses carefully, knowing that you are finite, and don't know how God is working in other's lives.

72 posted on 06/18/2003 7:40:39 AM PDT by ohioWfan (BUSH 2004!!!! Leadership, Integrity, Morality)
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To: ohioWfan
The Bible says an elder must be the "Husband of one wife". What Scriptural evidence do you have that leads you to believe that the Scripture is wrong? My guess (I don't know) is that most people believe in women's ordination because it makes them feel good. There is no Scriptural basis for it but there is Scriptural basis against it. It's one of those things things that is so clear, no one can see it. IMHO
78 posted on 06/18/2003 7:52:40 AM PDT by AppyPappy (If You're Not A Part Of The Solution, There's Good Money To Be Made In Prolonging The Problem.)
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