alexandermsmith
Puritan Board Junior
It's great that there are books like this.
Alexander, did you learn anything from your mother? Could she still teach you anything today? It's wrong to take a text and apply it beyond its lawful bound.
RGM isn't taking a church office or rising to lead worship. Those are Paul's concerns, and not whether it was wrong for Priscilla to educate Apollos, Act.18:26--a necessary conclusion, if your interpretation of 1Tim.2:12 stands.
It is important to be strict and stringent upon the dictates of Scripture. It is also important not to encroach (esp. with threats of divine sanction) on Christian liberty.
Aquila and Priscilla counselled him privately ("took him unto them"). It was not a public correction or teaching, which is what this book is, but private as that was the only way it would have been proper for Priscilla to correct him. That is clear from the text and is the view of the godly interpreters of the past.
Scripture also speaks to the teaching mothers give their children so this example of yours also fails. Yes one can continue to learn (in private conversation) from one's mother and other women. But not in this public manner in which a woman seeks to teach the church at large.
There is nothing in 1 Timothy 2:12 about office bearers or leading worship. It is a general prohibition against women assuming teaching authority in the church and comes in the midst of a passage addressing how men and women are to conduct themselves in the church. Not just office bearers but men and women in general. This book is written by one in the church and its audience is the church at large.
It is not great that there are books like these. First because they teach error and second because they're written by women.
And you know people really need to start justifying their reference to "Christian liberty". Merely invoking it doesn't prove the point. I categorically reject this as a matter of Christian liberty. It is a clear violation of clear Biblical teaching. The disastrous consequences of women usurping male authority in the church are all around us.
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