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To: Resolute Conservative
but the Bible does have an issue with them being pastors.

I am curious where the Bible has an issue with this?

251 posted on 11/14/2007 12:32:11 PM PST by rface (kooky inside and out)
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To: rface

In 1 Corinthians 14:34-35 Paul says that women are to remain silent within the assembly: “Women should remain silent in the assemblies. They are not allowed to speak, but must be in submission, as the Law says. If they want to inquire about something, they should ask their own husbands at home; for it is disgraceful for a woman to speak in the assembly” (NIV).

Paul says that women are not allowed to speak in the assembly. When a women has a question she is to ask her husband at home in private. In Paul’s letter to young Timothy he again makes it a point to mention that women are to obey their husbands and learn in quietness. “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” (1 Timothy 2:11-12, NIV). Scripturally, a woman must never place her authority over a man’s.

In the following Old Testament passages we find that all priests were men: Exodus 28:1; Exodus 32:26-29; Leviticus 8:2; Numbers 8:16-26. Nowhere within the Old Testament do we find priestesses.

In 1 Corinthians 12:29 the Apostle Paul lists the different offices within His body, and all are masculine positions: “Are all apostles? Are all prophets? Are all teachers?” (NIV).

Nowhere did Paul or anyone else ordain a woman to official offices in the Body of Messiah.


270 posted on 11/14/2007 12:47:35 PM PST by Resolute Conservative
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