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Let your women keep silence in church
by Greg Robbins I am a student of the Bible. I am not satisfied to let others do my studying for me. I won't accept something just because they said it was so. In fact, the Bible commends the Bereans for not accepting what the Apostle Paul taught at face value. They searched the scriptures for themselves to see if these things were so. Acts 17:10-11 "And the brethren immediately sent away Paul and Silas by night unto Berea: who coming thither went into the synagogue of the Jews. These were more noble than those in Thessalonica, in that they received the word with all readiness of mind, and searched the scriptures daily, whether those things were so." It is a virtue to search the scriptures to see if things taught are so or not. I don't arrive at my conclusions just by accepting what other people have said. I study these things out for myself, as the Bereans did. One of the reasons that I am a disciple of Jesus Christ and not a disciple of the Apostle Paul, is because he has a negative attitude toward women. He instructs to treat them like servants. 1 Corinthians 14:34-35 "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 says the law. And if they will learn anything, let them ask their husbands at home: for it is a shame for women to speak in the church." I have heard many explanations about these verses. The main one being that this was just a cultural issue and therefore we do not need to obey it today. Show me that in the Bible! You can't because it isn't there. False teachers always make statements based upon human reasoning, without scripture to back it up. So I have to outright reject that bit of reasoning. 1 Timothy 2:11-12 "Let the woman learn in silence with all subjection. But I suffer not a woman to teach, nor to usurp authority over the man, but to be in silence." We are not allowed to pick and choose what we will obey and not obey. If you are a disciple of Paul, then you are required to obey everything that he taught. Not only that, if what Paul said came from God, it is God's command that we obey this, and it will be eternal law, for all eternity. I just used the words, "eternal law." Many who read this will say that we are free from the law. Did you ever notice that Paul repeatedly quoted the law to give weight to what he was saying? He just did it again in the verses we are looking at. In 1 Corinthians 14:34 Paul just used the words, "as also says the law." If Paul was really against the law as most preachers say, Then how come he kept quoting from it to the Gentile Churches? Since Paul wanted what he commanded to be obeyed, he quoted from the law to give power to his words. Paul was in total agreement with the law here. We know this because he quoted from it to prove his argument, and to put to silence all opposition. So following Paul's argument; if you disobey his command, you also disobey the law. Now, the law was written for the Jewish Nation, which is it's own culture. Paul now is teaching the law to the Corinthians, which is a Gentile culture. Thus Paul proved that what he says crosses all cultural boundaries, and therefore is to be obeyed today. So that makes every single church that I have ever attended, or ever heard of, rebels against the Apostle Paul and the law. Paul taught that women were to keep silence in church. That is from start to finish, NOT ONE SINGLE WORD. It is shameful for women to speak in church, according to the Apostle Paul. Would you like the Apostle Paul to be your pastor, or denominational leader? You who follow the Apostle Paul, you need to repent and obey all of his commands. I am a disciple of Jesus Christ. Jesus raised women to a much higher place. Jesus performed his first miracle at the insistence of a woman, that is his mother Mary. Jesus had women who followed him in his company or entourage. Paul had not a single woman in his entourage. Jesus saved the woman caught in the very act of adultery. Jesus took the time to teach a Samaritan woman and reveal himself as the Messiah. As a result she went to evangelize the men of her village to "Come see a man who told me everything that I ever did. Is this not the Messiah?" Jesus allowed a prostitute to wash his feet with her tears, and to dry them with her hair, as her act of repentance. The first person that Jesus appeared to after his resurrection was a woman, Mary Magdalene. He sent Mary Magdalene to preach the very first gospel message, to the apostles no less. So Jesus lifted women up to liberate them. Paul wanted them to not speak one single word in church. He also said that IF she learned anything, to wait and ask her husband about it when she got back home. He commanded that women be in subjection to the men. That apparently included them learning anything, that is IF they learned anything. How different was Jesus. Remember Mary the sister of Lazarus? She freely sat at Jesus' feet and heard his words. Jesus took the time to teach Mary ALL BY HERSELF. I cannot even picture Paul doing that. He would have her husband there present. So as for me, I am a disciple of Jesus Christ. For that reason I believe it is quite alright for women to speak in church, and to teach even men. However If someone is a disciple of Paul, I will consider them a hypocrite and a rebel if they do not obey Paul's commands. http://jesuswordsonly.org My books on Amazon/Kindle https://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?url=search-alias%3Dstripbooks&field-keywords=Gregory+Robbins Article Source: http://www.faithwriters.com |