Continuing yesterday’s line of thought, from a conversation elsewhere online.
Women can teach Scripture correctly and truthfully to a degree, and generally have right doctrine. They are allowed to teach women and children in a limited way, under the care and guidance of their husbands and their church leadership. But they aren’t allowed a formal position of teaching or preaching pastor as defined by the New Testament in the Church, and they aren’t allowed to teach men. Paul specifically says so in 1 Timothy 2:11-14, and this is reiterated in ch. 3. And history has proven how women tend to allow their own dispositions to misguide their understandings of Scripture. That’s exactly at the core of this conversation, and reinforced by Genesis 3, as Paul points out in 1 Timothy 2. You don’t see Priscilla acting independent of her husband, but with him. Adam and Eve specifically went wrong because Adam did not stop and correct Eve on her erroneous doctrine. That’s at the heart of what Paul said. One can’t get around the Scriptural point that women regularly tend to go off the rails doctrinally. It will offend some women, but it is what it is.
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