Women are not Teachers in the Body of Christ
Response to comment [from a "Christian"]: [Women are not teachers in the Body of Christ]
As a reminder, Lazy
Afternoon is number 11 on
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in the The 'Jesus is
not God' people (Non-trinitarians) category.
"You only remind people that so you can negate Gods word."
I remind people so
that they can steer clear of: heretics,
apostates and deceivers.
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Women can teach.
They are not permitted to be the senior
pastor.
"God’s image is shared equally by women and
men (Genesis
1:26–27).
Women and men are equal before God (Galatians
3:28)."
Tyndale House Publishers. (2007). Holy
Bible: New Living Translation (3rd ed.).
Carol Stream, IL: Tyndale House Publishers.
"Tit
2:3–5
Women: The older women are to be teachers of
younger women, a task that mature Christian
women are admirably suited for (2:3–5). The
general character of godly women is stated
first, then is followed by specific
illustrations. Paul not only gave the mature
Christian women the responsibility to teach,
he also assigned a specific curriculum
(2:4–5). In 2:5 the wife and mother has her
primary sphere of responsibility in the
home. Yet
Proverbs 31:10–31
indicates that the home is not necessarily
the limit of her sphere of activity."
Hughes, R. B., & Laney, J. C. (2001).
Tyndale concise Bible commentary. The
Tyndale reference library (653). Wheaton,
IL: Tyndale House Publishers.
Deaconess: "There are a number of
indications in the NT that women as well as
men were appointed as deacons. Phoebe was
diakonos of the church at Cencreae (Rom.
16:1) and
Paul recommends her as his messenger.
Although sometimes translated ‘servant’ (av),
this is the word used for a deacon in
1 Tim. 3:8.
It had no feminine form at this time. The
Greek Fathers regularly read
1 Tim. 3:11,
‘The women likewise must be serious’ (rsv),
as a reference to the qualities required for
women deacons rather than deacons’ wives (av).
About ad 111 Pliny, governor of Bithynia,
reported that he had questioned under
torture two maidservants, who were called
deaconesses (ministrae), concerning
Christian rites (Epistolae, 10:96). After
that there seems no clear literary notice of
deaconesses before the 3rd century
Didascalia. It portrays a culture where
women were significantly enclosed. Women
deacons had freedom to move within
households, reaching women and children.
They played an important role at the baptism
of women and in continuing to teach the
converts. Around this time the feminine term
diakonissa was coined.
Some have doubted the existence of such an
office in NT times, but the consensus today
seems to be that women such as Phoebe held a
recognized office as deacon in Paul’s day.
The emphasis in
Luke 8:2f.
on the involvement of women in Jesus’
ministry may have been intended to be an
encouragement to them. Deaconesses gradually
disappeared in later centuries, with the
tendency for women’s ministry to be
concentrated in celibate religious orders."
Bibliography. B. Witherington, Women in the
Ministry of Jesus, 1984; A Report to the
House of Bishops of the General Synod of the
Church of England, Deacons in the Ministry
of the Church, 1981; C. Hall (ed.), The
Deacons Ministry, 1992.
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"Anyone who would think it important to use the evil words of one poster to defame another poster who is in the Kingdom of God, will never enter the coming Kingdom of God..."
Eph 5:11
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