Saved through child bearing?

[Unquirer]

Can someone give me an Orthodox interpretation of this scripture?

1 Tim 2:15

 

[yeshuaslavejeff]

https://orthodoxchristiantheology.com/2014/07/14/1-tim-214-15-a-simple-interpretation/

Like this ?

 

[dqhall]

Can someone give me an Orthodox interpretation of this scripture?

1 Tim 2:15

While men had a chance to gain glory through their works, women had a chance to gain glory through successful child care and education. Paul lived in an age when many women had to stay home with the children. A man might have farmed, hunted, built, fished, etc.

 

[ArmyMatt]

Can someone give me an Orthodox interpretation of this scripture?

1 Tim 2:15

the self emptying love of a woman for a child is salvific, especially with the pain of it.

 

[Kevin Snow]

Moreover, because this scripture even exists it shows the fundamental tie that lies in a woman bearing children. God punished the woman at the fall to undergo much more pain in childbearing. The woman will never experience God's punishment for the ubiquitous sin without having children. The same thing can be said of man, that "he will be saved through the sweat of his brow." Since man was punished to work the ground by the sweat of his brow we know that mankind must go through his punishment just as the woman.

I wrote a bit on this in a blog post of mine:

https://www.christianforums.com/blogs/the-roles-of-man-and-woman-in-society.58923/

 

[ArmyMatt]

I don't think we'd say it's a punishment, but rather something given to women by God to save them.

 

[Pilgrim Passing Thru]

Moreover, because this scripture even exists it shows the fundamental tie that lies in a woman bearing children. God punished the woman at the fall to undergo much more pain in childbearing. The woman will never experience God's punishment for the ubiquitous sin without having children. The same thing can be said of man, that "he will be saved through the sweat of his brow." Since man was punished to work the ground by the sweat of his brow we know that mankind must go through his punishment just as the woman.

I wrote a bit on this in a blog post of mine:

https://www.christianforums.com/blogs/the-roles-of-man-and-woman-in-society.58923/

Was that just until men figured out that women can weed and hoe?

 

[AMM]

How does this related to barrenness? Plenty of women through scripture and the history of the church have been infertile and still proclaimed saints.

 

[Unquirer]

Or those who choose not to have children?