Is it weird for men to listen to women teach the Bible?

Single Life · Aug 4, 2019

I am interested in learning from women. Is this weird?

Nithavela · Aug 4, 2019

It's normal, but expressly forbidden in the bible.

Phronema · Aug 4, 2019

Single Life said:
I am interested in learning from women as well as men. Is this weird?

No, it's not weird. Women can of course teach about the scriptures, and some have extensive education to aid in doing so.

Women aren't supposed to teach in church, but then neither are non-ordained men.

Single Life · Aug 4, 2019

Actually in this season I am interested in learning from bible teaching from women. I am actually tried of men. Men are boring to me since many of them say the same thing. It is cool to get a new prospective on the Bible from a different gender and mind.

Grandpa2390 · Aug 5, 2019

Single Life said:
I am interested in learning from women. Is this weird?

That depends. How seriously and/or literally do you interpret the writings of Paul?

Your answer to that question determines whether a woman is allowed to teach a man. Now the reason I worded it the way I did, is because even though Paul forbids women to teach men in a formal setting, I don't think there is any reason why you can't listen to a woman teach without submitting yourself to her authority (if you so interpret the scriptures that way). But if you are a super-fundamentalist, you might not want to listen to women at all...

Somebody like me, I can respect tradition, and I can respect the teaching that a woman is not to be in a role of authority over a man. But at the same time, I don't think women are inferior in intellect/understanding and are incapable of contributing anything of worth to me. That is to say, I have no issue learning from a woman. I compartmentalize tradition and what it represents from my views on women and desire and willingness to learn from anyone.

dayhiker · Aug 6, 2019

I've enjoyed learning from women Bible teachers as much as men. Both men and women are human with their own individual experiences to bring to their teaching

Single Life · Aug 6, 2019

Whatever it is my life is very much changing and I know that God is using the teaching in me.

bèlla · Aug 6, 2019

I prefer inductive bible study. I think Kay Arthur has done a great job and covered a lot of ground. All the resources have male and female instructors. The in-depth studies are very good. They work for group and individual study. I’m contemplating doing it at home.

Miles · Aug 6, 2019

It isn't weird. Even if you feel that women shouldn't be pastors, there have always been female teachers. And moms. Can't forget them!

Sir Robbins · Aug 7, 2019

Well, we have Paula White here in Orlando

justme6272 · Oct 27, 2019

Depends on your definition of 'weird.' If you mean, is it common, then yes. If you mean, is it Biblical, then no.

Go Braves · Oct 28, 2019

Single Life said:
I am interested in learning from women. Is this weird?

Not in the slightest bit weird.

JAM2b · Oct 28, 2019

Beth Moore, Kay Arthur, Stormy O'Martian, Cynthia Schneider, Joyce Meyer, Corrie Ten Boom, Pricilla Shirer

Women can teach, spread the gospel, and lead. There's Biblical examples. Queen Esther, Deborah, Mary Magdeline, Lois and Eunice, Dorcas (Tabitha)

Rigatoni · Oct 28, 2019

I don't think there's anything wrong with it. You can get excellent insight from women teachers; by all means change it up. If they're teaching from a position of spiritual leadership / authority over men however, that's not permitted in Scripture.

This article by GotQuestions.org does a better job at tackling the underlying issue as a whole: What does the Bible say about women pastors? | GotQuestions.org

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.

Yet another objection to this interpretation of women in pastoral ministry is in relation to women who held positions of leadership in the Bible, specifically Miriam, Deborah, and Huldah in the Old Testament. It is true that these women were chosen by God for special service to Him and that they stand as models of faith, courage, and, yes, leadership. However, the authority of women in the Old Testament is not relevant to the issue of pastors in the church. The New Testament Epistles present a new paradigm for God’s people

The fact that Eve was deceived is also given in 1 Timothy 2:14 as a reason for women not serving as pastors or having spiritual authority over men. This does not mean that women are gullible or that they are all more easily deceived than men. . . . The text simply says that women are not to teach men or have spiritual authority over men because Eve was deceived. God has chosen to give men the primary teaching authority in the church.

blackribbon · Oct 29, 2019

Do you believe only men can understand God or the Bible? Most men learn a lot of things from women. In fact, most people are first exposed to God, the Bible, and praying from their mothers...who, in fact, are women.

I think that men who refuse to learn from women in all Christian settings are likely missing out on some Godly teachings...because God, in fact, did make women too.

public hermit · Oct 29, 2019

Macrina was the older sister of Basil the Great and Gregory of Nyssa (two of the Cappadocian Fathers-instrumental in formulating the doctrine of the Trinity). She instructed both of them in the faith when they were younger. On her death bed, she taught Gregory about the resurrection, which he wrote down in On the Soul and the Resurrection. There's no need to feel weird about learning the faith from a woman. If a woman was good enough a teacher for Basil and Gregory, I am sure a woman would be good enough for you or me.

Two Saints: Macrina the Elder and Macrina the Younger

https://www.st-philip.net/files/Fitzgerald Patristic series/Gregory-Nyssa_soul_and_resurrection.pdf

( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°) · Oct 29, 2019

no offense to animal friendlies or women, but if the prophet can get direction from listening to a donkey talk to him, then i think anything goes.

patricksteve · Oct 29, 2019

At the two churches I attend regularly, women do not teach. They do serve in admin and make announcements from time to time.

ajcarey · Oct 29, 2019

Teaching publicly is by nature authoritative; it is a principle of creation that it is not proper for a woman to teach a man in that regard; and that was Paul's point when he spoke about this subject in 1 Timothy chapter 2 and 1 Corinthians chapter 14.

Whether it's weird or not isn't really the issue. The issues are that it's improper before God and whatever is the real WHY behind your interest. And I don't believe that it is really that men are boring and say the same things. Women can be boring and say the same things too. Maybe you long for a motherly figure in your life. And if so, that is not weird nor wrong. But don't violate any principle of God's Word to obtain your longing, whether it be a motherly figure or something else.

And BTW: I'm taking it that you mean a woman teaching a congregation of men and women rather than an individual exhortation to a man on a personal level. The latter is not necessarily wrong and I've been blessed from such exhortations, yet I wouldn't go looking for one unless you know an obviously godly, mature, and submissive woman who isn't going around boldly looking to be a public figure and/or to gain disciples and/or to be liked up to by men and/or exercise influence over men and/or to say whatever is on her mind.

blackribbon · Oct 29, 2019

ajcarey said:
Teaching publicly is by nature authoritative; it is a principle of creation that it is not proper for a woman to teach a man in that regard; and that was Paul's point when he spoke about this subject in 1 Timothy chapter 2 and 1 Corinthians chapter 14.

Whether it's weird or not isn't really the issue. The issues are that it's improper before God and whatever is the real WHY behind your interest. And I don't believe that it is really that men are boring and say the same things. Women can be boring and say the same things too. Maybe you long for a motherly figure in your life. And if so, that is not weird nor wrong. But don't violate any principle of God's Word to obtain your longing, whether it be a motherly figure or something else.

And BTW: I'm taking it that you mean a woman teaching a congregation of men and women rather than an individual exhortation to a man on a personal level. The latter is not necessarily wrong and I've been blessed from such exhortations, yet I wouldn't go looking for one unless you know an obviously godly, mature, and submissive woman who isn't going around boldly looking to be a public figure and/or to gain disciples and/or to be liked up to by men and/or exercise influence over men and/or to say whatever is on her mind.

Do you feel the same way about teachers of other topics since most teachers in the US are women? Teaching of the Bible includes a lot of situation other than a Sunday sermon. Most women teachers beyond lower elementary school don't serve a "motherly" figure in anyone's life.

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