Women's Role

[Evangelical]

Originally Posted by ZNPaaneah

Really, how do I fail to admit any restrictions? I admit every single restriction that Paul has given.

If you are referring to 1Tim 2, then you can't ignore the other verses of Paul in the books to Timothy and Titus. Nor should you ignore Paul's word in 1Corinthians.

In Post # 143 I explain 1Tim 2 in a way that does not contradict everything else Paul taught. However, if you read it as a blanket prohibition on women teaching then you are contradicting many other verses by Paul and others. That is a fatally flawed approach.

I have never put forward a blanket prohibition of women teaching.

My OP was in response to someone who had a question about women in leadership positions, i.e. in the "circle of elders":

They asked:

I'll just ask you one thing: Who do you see, in the leadership circle of LC, is a woman?


I'm genuinely curious if you know any sister that is in leadership position because of and only because of her spirituality.

It is about women teaching doctrine to men without the covering of the brothers in the assembly. I presumed that this was of her own accord and not by virtue of being the wife of an elder.

Women in leadership positions and particularly unmarried women without the covering of her husband, has been a universally accepted prohibition in Catholic, Orthodox, and Protestant/Reform churches for centuries.