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Originally Posted by Jeffrey
Even the Pharisees were appalled at Jesus for breaking the literal law by healing on the Sabbath 
Just food for thought. We have a job to do. And a job in a 21st Century where attitudes toward women are much different. Even the most conservative of families still recognize the leadership of a man-led home, but there is a respect for a human being that is moved on by the Spirit to minister to others, which includes teaching. It doesn't rub anyone the wrong way today, except those still clinging to the letter of the law, and missing the whole spirit of it. That said, I think the jury is still out on what Paul was correcting: a universal prohibition of women teaching/preaching, or a unique situation where women were usurping authority within the church? |
Not at all! Did only the women that Paul was talking about in I Tim. have to dress modestly? The epistle was written "so that you may know how to behave yourself in the house of God, which IS THE CHURCH.........." It still goes for today: "I do not allow a woman to speak, or to excercise authority over a man." Is the God-called ministry in a position of authority w/in the church? Of course it is [
Heb. 13]. This is what Paul explicitly forbids.
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