Too much! A topic designed only to inflame and to divide.
First, can women teach? God does use back-up plans. Even the entire Levitical Priesthood was a"fall-back plan".
In the writings of Paul we can see where he sometimes puts his own spin on things. The often used reference of
I Tim 2:11-15 is an excellent example of this writing/instruction style (a referenced often used but seldom actually read and even less understood) rests in
1 Tim 2:12.
Second, there is a difference between counseling, teaching, providing guidance and providing spiritual authority over another person. Women have been exercising these functions over males sense the birth of Cain.
Should a women have and exercise spiritual authority over men? I suggest looking at God's description and plan for marriage. The church is to be a marriage relationship. Does the church actually reflect God's original intent? Not likely!
Solution: Before removing women from leadership roles that God has called, ordained, and established (fruit inspectors please step forward), let's start by cleaning out the the false teachers, prophets, and other wolves who are eating the saints of God alive! If it were not for the wife of Moses taking authority over her household, and even over Moses himself, he would never have lived to make it back to Egypt to lead God's people out of bondage. While on the road to Egypt, God sent an angel to kill him.
Our Lord is the same today, yesterday, and tomorrow, and of the things about our God that never changes, is that He is always doing things differently than He has in the past.
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Marriage, A Different Point of View
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