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What do you think of women being pastors?
Fine by me... >_>
Maybe it would be more relevant for you if I asked how you are about women being head of household.
What do you think of women being pastors?
Paul stated
I do not permit a woman to teach or to have authority over a man; she must be silent
Sounds like a personal opinion to me. Not a commandment from God. Since he was a Pharisee his opinion is understandable but not scripturally enforceable. Not everything that Paul said should not be taken as commandments from God.
Well those statements do not really reconcile anything. LOL.So how does all this reconcile?
One way is that these passages were only talking to that specific group of women in that specific city. If that's the view, then women today can be head pastor or anything else in churches. This view is very liberal and I am not sure I agree.
Another way is that women should not become the ultimate leader of a church. Women are allowed to teach children and other women. So if there is a children's ministry or a women's ministry, certainly go ahead and hire a female pastor if it is fitting. And females are allowed to speak in front of the whole church on occasion. But even then, a woman cannot be the ultimate leader of a church. Just as a husband is designed to be the head of a household, a male pastor is designed to be the head of a church.
Maybe it would be more relevant for you if I asked how you are about women being head of household.
This. Very much, this.http://www.gotquestions.org/women-pastors.html
The Word of God proclaims, “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). In the church, God assigns different roles to men and women. This is a result of the way mankind was created and the way in which sin entered the world (1 Timothy 2:13–14). God, through the apostle Paul, restricts women from serving in roles of teaching and/or having spiritual authority over men. This precludes women from serving as pastors over men, which definitely includes preaching to them, teaching them publicly, and exercising spiritual authority over them.
He was not a Pharisee when he wrote the Letters. He was changed in Christ, he detested his past and counted it all as loss. Paul had authority through the Holy Spirit, and the letters were written so the church could gain doctrine not only back then but for the future generations. That's one of the main purposes of the letters, doctrine. 2 Timothy 3:16Paul stated
I do not permit a woman to teach or to have authority over a man; she must be silent
Sounds like a personal opinion to me. Not a commandment from God. Since he was a Pharisee his opinion is understandable but not scripturally enforceable. Not everything that Paul said should not be taken as commandments from God.
Paul stated
I do not permit a woman to teach or to have authority over a man; she must be silent
Sounds like a personal opinion to me. Not a commandment from God. Since he was a Pharisee his opinion is understandable but not scripturally enforceable. Not everything that Paul said should not be taken as commandments from God.
Except when he wrote that phrase in 2 Timothy, scripture was not his letters to the various churches. Man made them scripture. Please do not give us a lecture on why his letters were made scripture. I have heard them all. As far as I am concerned there are Christians out there who should be called Paulians. Some totally ignore what Jesus did or did not say and go with what Paul said.That's one of the main purposes of the letters, doctrine. 2 Timothy 3:16
I do not believe it was ever a commandment from God.Regardless, I agree that it's a commandment that I believe no longer applies to us today.