Okay well since so many people have replied about stuff to do with gays I'm more concerned right now about the apparent injustice towards woman and I'd greatly appreciate it if you replied.
A good way to receive substantial answers to questions is to comment back on them before moving on to another question. I see you brushed off that first question, lumping the answers into a "stuff" bin.
As for the second question, Paul wrote a letter of instruction to Timothy, whom he regarded a fellow apostle, as well as Barnabus, while Tmothy was a chief minister in Ephesus, a Gentile city. The requierments of the following scripture:
1 Timothy 2:9-15 (KJV)
[SUP]9 [/SUP] In like manner also, that women adorn themselves in modest apparel, with shamefacedness and sobriety; not with broided hair, or gold, or pearls, or costly array;
[SUP]10 [/SUP] But (which becometh women professing godliness) with good works.
[SUP]11 [/SUP] Let the woman learn in silence with all subjection.
[SUP]12 [/SUP] But I suffer not a woman to teach, nor to usurp authority over the man, but to be in silence.
[SUP]13 [/SUP] For Adam was first formed, then Eve.
[SUP]14 [/SUP] And Adam was not deceived, but the woman being deceived was in the transgression.
[SUP]15 [/SUP] Notwithstanding she shall be saved in childbearing, if they continue in faith and charity and holiness with sobriety.
Is patterned from preferences of God already written in the old covenant. The churches among both Jewish-Christians and Gentile Christians did in fact adopt such rules, not offended over those restrictions on women.
Offenses arise among some living in our modern culture in America, increasingly lacking knowledge of God
Paul gave reasons for his rules about women.
1. The first is posted in v. 13. Adam was first created, then Eve. All through the scriptures the "first born" male was assigned family authority, as it should be now for many reasons.
2. The woman was deceived by Satan, not Adam. Her general curse was the penalty of painful childbearing, while the man would have to work hard seating in the sun. Both had the eternal punishment threat over them.
3. Backing up 2, is
2 Corinthians 11:3 (KJV) [SUP]3 [/SUP] But I fear, lest by any means, as the serpent beguiled Eve through his subtilty, so your minds should be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ.
The main concern Paul had about women taking authority above men, writing by inspiration of the Holy Spirit, is there is a principle of authority that's inherent between man and woman. God made them the way they are, and in general women will always be women, men will be men, with the exceptions of modern habits of redefining terms to hide their sins.
The principle Paul taught Timothy (and the whole Church) indicates God looks for a man who will assume his God-assigned authority, hear God, then pass on God's message by word and or deed. Women ought to rejoice when their husband obeys God, who will cause the man to love his wife the way God says he should.
God IS who he is, always was, and will be. What God said was unacceptable behavior remains so with him. He can't wink at sins he hates, especially sims he said deserved the very blood of the partners in sin. He changes not. Many people have lost their lives because of perversions, outright rebellion against the holy God. There are no promises to anyone choosing to live a sin lifestyle. The sinner is on his own, regardless of what is believed about Jesus.
Salvation begins with hearing the pure word of God preached, then believing it applies, then giving up sins God hates, then living by faith in Christ.
That offends activist homosexuals/lesbians, etc who tend to grab hold of the currently "all grace" humanistic movement, asserting God forgives anyway. That's a "false gospel" that arose after that of Jesus and his original apostles. There sill be no "gay bar" in God's heaven. No homosexuals or lesbians will parade through his temple. There will be no "Queer Garden" there for the men to frolic, with holy saints forced to look on as a lesson in "acceptance". God will not approve of that there, and certainly doesn't accept it here. He holds off his wrath, letting sin come to full fruit, then send in the reaper angels.
