I am interested in learning from women. Is this weird?
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I am interested in learning from women as well as men. Is this weird?
That depends. How seriously and/or literally do you interpret the writings of Paul?I am interested in learning from women. Is this weird?
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.
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.