교회에 있는 여자의 역할에 생각 더

지도력에 있는 여자의 역할에 나의 이전 포스트의 주석란에서 시작되어, 나가 새로운 포스트를 추가하는 것을 결정한 토의 계속 대신에.

나는 천만에 성전이 여자 에의한 지도력의 운동하거나 남자의 가르치를 금지한ㄴ다는 것을 납득된다. 순전히 성전이 평등주의 위치를 가르친ㄴ다는 것을 나가 완전하게 납득된다 이지 않는다. 그것은 나가 complentarian 위치의 납득되지 않는다 더 많은 것이다. 이 현실을 주어, 나는 은총과 자유의 측에 오히려 잘못할 것입니다. 그리고 진실은 심혼에, 나이다 대단히 egalitarian 말된다. 그것이 egalitarian일 것이다 성전 또는 나의 확신에 대하여 있다 처럼 그리고 나가 느끼지 않기 때문에, 나는 그것에서 기쁘게 달리고 있다.

역시, 나는 소량 주석에서 접전하고 싶으면. 나는 성경 학자 멀리가에서 아니 그것 그러나 저가 평등주의 위치를 위한 신약에 있는 더 곤란한 통행의 한을 달려드는 것을 허용한다. 실제로, 대부분의 통행은 평등주의 군중이 1개의 예외 하고는, 연설하도록 충분히 쉽게 보인다: 1개의 디모데 2:11 - 15…

여자가 모든 유순함으로 조용하게 배우게 하십시오. 나는 여자가 남자에 권위를 가르치거나 운동하는 것을 허용하지 않는다; 오히려, 그녀는 조용하게 남아 있을 것이다. 아담을 위해, 그 후에 이브 첫째로 형성되었다; 그리고 아담은 속지 않았다, 그러나 여자는 위반자가 속고 되었다. 그러나 그녀는 자제심과 더불어 분만 만약에 그들이 믿음에서 및 사랑 및 신성 계속하면, 처음부터 끝까지 저장될 것이다.

이 통행에 읽힌 나는 여기에서 있다. The “submissiveness” here doesn’t seem to be “submissiveness” to men, but submissiveness to God or to the assembly. Being unsubmissive, then, doesn’t mean that they had the audacity to lead men or the audacity to speak up. Being unsubmissive means that they were not yielding appropriately to Christ and/or the assembly.

Paul cannot mean that women cannot teach in a broad sense–it must be a very specific sense of teaching (since there are examples in Scripture of women teaching in different senses. I agree that there are cases when women cannot teach. I simply don’t think there is a universal principle here. I also don’t think that women, by default, should be kept from leadership or teaching roles. But the key to understanding this particular situation is that Paul contrasts “teaching and having authority over men” with remaining quiet. Clearly, women are not always to remain silent, since elsewhere in the Pauline canon Paul instructs women in the proper way of prophesying and whatnot.

So, then, this is a particular case when women are to be quiet, rather than in teaching or exercising authority. Why is it that we make this a universal teaching, when it is clearly a particular instance in which we cannot see all the issues readily within the text?

You might say “Mark, you cannot so easily dismiss the complementarian reading of this text, for this teaching is rooted in the creation order!” Fair enough. And it is this reality that renders this the most problematic passage to the egalitarian. However, this passage only makes the point that women should be submissive…and since the earlier use of this word doesn’t seem to refer to male-female relations, then this doesn’t seem to argue for a gender hierarchy, but for women to be submissive.

This is hardly an original thought, but given all of this, I cannot help but think that the situation of that ancient congregation involved a group of women acting in a way that was not appropriate. I do not think that the inappropriate situation was that women were merely teaching men and acting in an eldering capacity. The situation was that unsubmissive women (in my earlier sense of the word) were teaching and having authority. Instead, they should learn from their mother Eve, who was deceived. The implication is that these particular women are being deceived. This seems like a valid interpretation. After all, in 2 Cor 11:3 Paul uses Eve as an example of anyone who is deceived.

The reason this passage is interpreted the way it is by complementarians is that they seem to assume that what Paul means by “submissive” is “submissive to men” and that the reference to Adam and Eve is meant to demonstrate a universal status for men and women. Instead, I think that submission is meant in a broader sense and that the reference to Adam and Eve is an admonition to eschew deception. These particular women are being inappropriate in their manner of teaching and having authority and as a result, Paul instructs the women to be quiet.

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