How connected is attitude towards women and inerrancy?

[Presbyterian Continuist]

No, he taught the word and he was a product of that.

1 Corinthians 14:37 If anyone thinks himself to be a prophet or spiritual, let him acknowledge that the things which I write to you are the commandments of the Lord.

That's interesting. Then, the rest of the chapter dealing with tongues and prophecy is also the commandments of the Lord. This means that those churches that ban tongues and prophecy in their midst the way that Paul taught it, are disobeying the commandments of the Lord!

It is insightful that there are churches that require their women to be silent and not have any spoken ministry, in view of Paul's "commandment", but will not allow anyone to speak in tongues along with an interpretation, or prophesy. This must mean that they are a selfist church that decides which of God's commandments they will obey and which they will ignore.

O, consistency, thou art a jewel!

 

[Presbyterian Continuist]

WOW man that's amazing! You know what paul would say if he would come back today? And apparently verbatim as you put it in quotation marks.......That's incredible man.

Are you a prophet?

No. I am more of a loss!

 

[~Zao~]

Comment on statement of purpose for this forum.

• Belief that the Bible teaches the full equality of men and women in Creation and in Redemption
• Belief that both woman and man were created for full and equal partnership.
• Belief that man and woman were co-participants in the Fall
• Belief that husbands and wives are joint heirs together of the grace of life and that they are bound together in a relationship of mutual submission and responsibility
• Belief that both mothers and fathers are to exercise leadership in the nurture, training, discipline and teaching of their children

That states that the bible is not in error. Merely the interpretation thereof. Any other interpretation is off-topic on this forum.

 

[RDKirk]

Actually he did it in the first century.

There are about 28 new testament women named in the bible. Paul and his disciple Luke uniquely name 23 of them. If not for Paul and Luke, we would only know of Mary, Mary, Mary, Martha, and Salome.

From all of what he had to say about the role of women in his ministry, and what Luke says about the role of women in Paul's ministry, I'd say Paul is the first recorded gender egalitarian. Certainly no other man wrote as much about the importance of women in his own work as Paul did...even up to modern times.

Paul could simply have ignored them, never mentioned them, and nobody in his day would have noted the omission. It appears to me that like the slavery issue and the ethnic bigotry issue, Paul pushed egalitarianism about as far as he could in that society.

 

[W2L]

It's clear from context that this refers to his instructions on behavior of prophets.

I dont wish to debate here. Can you please PM me and elaborate?