August 24, 2006
Just Plain Sillier
Here’s the passage in question for the fired female Sunday school teacher:
11 A woman should learn in quietness and full submission. 12 I do not permit a woman to teach or to have authority over a man; she must be silent. 13For Adam was formed first, then Eve. 14And Adam was not the one deceived; it was the woman who was deceived and became a sinner. 15But women[a] will be saved[b] through childbearing—if they continue in faith, love and holiness with propriety. (NIV)
Oops. If the Watertown church mentioned in my last post has a board with more than 50 percent women, which it does, those women are “having authority” over the men of the congregation. I have no problem with that, but I think it’s worth noting in the context of this story.
Check out verse 13, too. Did anyone miss the part, a couple thousand pages back in the Bible, where it says we’re all deceived sinners? Shoot, if only Adam had not let Eve’s eyelash batting tempt him to sin, all of us modern day men could reign over women. Oops. Maybe let’s just let anyone, man or woman, teach if they’re qualified to teach on their spiritual and intellectual merits and leave the subjugating to someone else.
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