Women will be saved THROUGH CHILDBEARING

tonychanyt · Aug 18, 2023

Paul wrote in 1 Corinthians 3:

14 If the work that anyone has built on the foundation survives, he will receive a reward. 15 If anyone’s work is burned up, he will suffer loss, though he himself will be saved, but only as through [διὰ] fire.

The Greek preposition is διὰ. He will be saved through fire and not by fire. Fire does not save anyone. Fire tests men's works for different rewards.

Elsewhere, Paul expressed a similar idea in 1 Timothy 2:

12 I do not permit a woman to teach or to exercise authority over a man; rather, she is to remain quiet. 13 For Adam was formed first, then Eve. 14 And Adam was not the one deceived; it was the woman who was deceived and became a sinner. 15 But women will be saved through [διὰ] childbearing—if they continue in faith, love and holiness with propriety.

In the above passage, Paul focused on the works of women. Women will be saved not by childbearing but through the experience of childbearing. Her works involve bringing up children.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown explained:

Ge 3:16, 'in sorrow shalt thou bring forth children'), she shall be saved." Moreover, I think it is implied indirectly that the very curse will be turned into a condition favorable to her salvation, by her faithfully performing her part in doing and suffering what God has assigned to her, namely, child-bearing and home duties, her sphere, as distinguished from public teaching, which is not hers, but man's (1Ti 2:11, 12).

What about women who do not have kids?

Women who do not want or have kids are saved like men and women who do want kids. There is no difference. 1 Timothy 2:15 is not about justification by works. It is about sanctification through works.

atpollard · Aug 18, 2023

David Guzik (commentary on 1 Timothy 2:15)

A better way to approach this passage is based on the grammar in the original Greek language. In the original, it says she will be saved in the childbirth. This has the sense, “Even though women were deceived, and fell into transgression starting with Eve, women can be saved by the Messiah — whom a woman brought into the world.”

i. Probably, the idea here is that even though the “woman race” did something bad in the garden by being deceived and falling into transgression, the “woman race” also did something far greater, in being used by God to bring the saving Messiah into the world.

ii. The summary is this: Don’t blame women for the fall of the human race; the Bible doesn’t. Instead, thank women for bringing the Messiah to us.

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