{"id":518,"date":"2007-03-22T19:12:19","date_gmt":"2007-03-22T19:12:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/?p=518"},"modified":"2007-03-22T19:12:19","modified_gmt":"2007-03-22T19:12:19","slug":"1-timothy-2:12-but-i-permit-not-a-woman-to-teach...","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/?p=518","title":{"rendered":"1 Timothy 2:12 But I permit not a woman to teach..."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Whoever tries to interpret this verse as historically obsolete principle, is merely trying to be a smart alec. As if he knew what it means to be equal between men and women. <\/p>\n<p>By no means were the women in the Roman Empire so less educated that they were not to teach. What happened to Truth? Learning God&#39;s way? does it not also apply to women?<\/p>\n<p>If a woman knows the truth and speak not, she would be playing the role of Satan, hindering others from the truth. <\/p>\n<p>Now this verse applies with reason given in subsequent verses (1Ti 2:13-14). When concerning matters of authority. The head of the woman is the man. Wives are to submit to their husbands. (1 Corinthians 11:3)<\/p>\n<p>Now I have heard many Christian wives would like to say &quot;Sure, the husband is the head of the wife, but the wife is the husband&#39;s neck&quot; This way the head is useless if the neck is not &quot;in control&quot;. Dr. Stephen Tong brought an excellent contrast from the Bible: &quot;A worthy woman is the crown of her husband&quot; Proverbs 12:4. Therefore, only a fool would want to be a neck and not the crown.<\/p>\n<p>Nonetheless, there are times when God raised the women to take over authority. Ergo, a contradiction? Not at all. Rather, it is only when the men despised the authority given them in the name of cowardice and indolence.<\/p>\n<p>The church should be the light of the world. When the church couldn&#39;t even stand up when women are abused by their husbands, it would open the door for the &quot;learned&quot; pagans to promote feminism. Turning the divine order around, causing everyone to sink in the drunkenness of the fallen perception of fairness. <\/p>\n<p>What about equality?&nbsp; Just as Christ is God, Christ is equal to God.<\/p>\n<p>[@more@]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Whoever tries to interpret this verse as historically obsolete principle, is merely trying to be a smart alec. As if he knew what it means to be equal between men and women. By no means were the women in the &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/?p=518\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-518","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-theologization"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/518","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=518"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/518\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=518"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}