Wednesday, October 20, 2010

Context

1 Timothy 2 is a short chapter but full of difficult writings.

8I want men everywhere to lift up holy hands in prayer, without anger or disputing.

9I also want women to dress modestly, with decency and propriety, not with braided hair or gold or pearls or expensive clothes, 10but with good deeds, appropriate for women who profess to worship God.


So, Paul's hope for men is a spiritual one but for women is a physical one.
Is this because women were more spiritually advanced? lol.
Maybe men have more trouble with the spiritual things, and women with the material ones?

And then we come to:
11A woman should learn in quietness and full submission. 12I 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.
Are women more easy to deceive?
This was our downfall!
Why does God gift some women as orators if they are to be silent?
There is obviously a lot of disputed territory here. I am still trying to grasp why Paul appends this to the front of the chapter that indicates that Jesus wants everyone to be saved. Would Jesus want women to speak if it mean that that goal was met?
I know many people have disagreements over this and so I am certainly not expecting any resolution here, just stuff to think about.

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