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Originally Posted by MissBrattified
Why can she pray, prophesy and praise in church if she is told to be silent, and why not preach, since Paul didn't forbid that? You guys are adding preaching to the mix, but the passage doesn't mention it. And, in your view, can women teach classes such as Sunday School classes?
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The prohibition was in TEACHING and EXERCISING AUTHORITY over the man. Silence was used in conjunction with teaching in
1 Tim 2. Why? It is impossible to teach without exercising authority. You may have a problem with that, but most certainly the scripture does not.
1Ti 2:11 Let the woman learn in silence with all subjection.
1Ti 2:12 But I suffer not a woman to teach, nor to usurp authority over the man, but to be in silence.
The silence was in the church, as already demonstrated silence was in regards to teaching. Notice this chapter,
1 Cor 14, is in regards to the abuse of tongues, and Paul demonstrates that it would be better to
teach with 5 words than 10,000 words in an unknown tongue.
1Co 14:19 Yet in the church I had rather speak five words with my understanding, that by my voice I might teach others also, than ten thousand words in an unknown tongue.
He also uses the word silence in regards to speaking in tongues, before he uses the term directed towards women. Let me demonstrate.
1Co 14:28 But if there be no interpreter, let him keep
silence in the church; and let him speak to himself, and to God.
Was this Paul saying that a man could not utter a word? No! As a matter of fact he follows this injunction of silence with
let him speak. The injunction was if there was no interpreter for the man to keep silence, in regards to teaching or edifying or speaking to the church. However he could speak to himself and God. It is with this formula in mind we can also discern the proper application of silence directed toward the women. Is it absolute silence, as in not a sound? NO! She may pray, prophesy, praise, but the injunction of silence is in teaching, period. You cannot teach without exercising authority over the man when they are present.
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