As we all know there are many women standing in pulpits today preaching the word of God to men and women.
With that being said Do you know, without a shadow of doubt, that it is wrong for women to become pastors of churches? Like I have said before, I'm a book, chapter, and verse kind of girl so your opinions won't be any good to me or other people reading this post if you can't dig in the scriptures yourself and seek what God is saying in his word. Thanks in advance for all your comments! God Bless!
1 Timothy 2:[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.
1 Corinthians 14:[SUP]
34 [/SUP]Let your women keep silence in the churches: for it is not permitted unto them to speak; but
they are commanded to be under obedience as also saith the law. [SUP]
35 [/SUP]And if they will learn any thing, let them ask their husbands at home:
for it is a shame for women to speak in the church. [SUP]36[/SUP]What? came the word of God out from you? or came it unto you only? [SUP]
37 [/SUP]If any man think himself to be a prophet, or spiritual, let him acknowledge that the things that I write unto you are the commandments of the Lord.
The reason why is because Adam was formed first and had heard the word of God from Himself not to eat of the forbidden tree. Eve was created afterwards and was told by Adam not to eat of that forbidden fruit. That was why Satan went to Eve because she did not heard it straight from God to cause doubt. Then by using to Eve in doubt to mislead Adam in thinking otherwise, they had both fallen.
This was Paul way of saying what God commanded in the beginning was that He would have men as rulers over women.
Genesis 3:[SUP]
16 [/SUP]Unto the woman he said, I will greatly multiply thy sorrow and thy conception; in sorrow thou shalt bring forth children; and thy desire shall be to thy husband, and
he shall rule over thee.
Paul re-enforces that commandment by the comparison of Christ relationship with the church.
Ephesians 5:[SUP]
22 [/SUP]Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord. [SUP]
23 [/SUP]For the husband is the head of the wife, even as Christ is the head of the church: and he is the saviour of the body. [SUP]
24 [/SUP]Therefore as the church is subject unto Christ, so let the wives be to their own husbands in every thing.
Now husbands were given this warning not to abuse that authority since men are to be submissive to Christ.
Ephesians 5:[SUP]
25 [/SUP]Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it; [SUP]
26 [/SUP]That he might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the word, [SUP]
27 [/SUP]That he might present it to himself a glorious church, not having spot, or wrinkle, or any such thing; but that it should be holy and without blemish. [SUP]
28 [/SUP]So ought men to love their wives as their own bodies. He that loveth his wife loveth himself. [SUP]
29 [/SUP]For no man ever yet hated his own flesh; but nourisheth and cherisheth it, even as the Lord the church: [SUP]
30 [/SUP]For we are members of his body, of his flesh, and of his bones. [SUP]
31 [/SUP]For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall be joined unto his wife, and they two shall be one flesh. [SUP]
32 [/SUP]This is a great mystery: but I speak concerning Christ and the church. [SUP]
33 [/SUP]Nevertheless let every one of you in particular so love his wife even as himself; and the wife see that she reverence her husband.
What irks me is how the women complain all the time about men taking the backseat in the homes, and yet fail to see their dominancy in getting in the way of him getting out from that backseat. Then you have them taking leadership roles in the church, and I bet some of these women are griping about the men doing nothing there too.
Women that complain, should start taking the backseat and let the men know that they are, and yet point out in scripture their role for taking charge, and let Christ do the chastening.
What is one danger for suffering a woman to teach? The church at Thyatira will show why in Revelations.
Revelation 2:[SUP]
18 [/SUP]And unto the angel of the church in Thyatira write; These things saith the Son of God, who hath his eyes like unto a flame of fire, and his feet are like fine brass; [SUP]
19 [/SUP]I know thy works, and charity, and service, and faith, and thy patience, and thy works; and the last to be more than the first. [SUP]
20 [/SUP]Notwithstanding I have a few things against thee, because
thou sufferest that woman Jezebel, which calleth herself a prophetess, to teach and to seduce my servants to commit fornication, and to eat things sacrificed unto idols. [SUP]
21 [/SUP]And I gave her space to repent of her fornication; and she repented not. [SUP]
22 [/SUP]Behold, I will cast her into a bed, and them that commit adultery with her into great tribulation, except they repent of their deeds. [SUP]
23 [/SUP]And I will kill her children with death; and all the churches shall know that I am he which searcheth the reins and hearts: and I will give unto every one of you according to your works.
With all of these churches accepting social values in conforming to the world, allowing a woman to teach & to lead is one of them.
Romans 12:1I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service. [SUP]
2 [/SUP]And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God. [SUP]
3 [/SUP]For I say, through the grace given unto me, to every man that is among you, not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think; but to think soberly, according as God hath dealt to every man the measure of faith.
Seems alot of men & women are thinking higher than they ought to think these days when conforming to the way of the world.
So there is no authorization in God's words for permitting a woman to teach in the assembly or to usurp authority over a man in the assembly or in the home, but Paul seems to give grace for ignorance.
1 Corinthans 14:[SUP]
37 [/SUP]If any man think himself to be a prophet, or spiritual, let him acknowledge that the things that I write unto you are the commandments of the Lord.[SUP]
38 [/SUP]But if any man be ignorant, let him be ignorant.
But scripture does say that by being ignorant, one is still not being submissive to Christ. One can always go before that throne of grace for help in that area to repent and for guidance as to how the church can return to being submissive to Christ.
