View 1: Women saved from physical death during childbirth

This view reads sozo as 'preserved/kept safe' and interprets the verse as promising that godly women will be physically protected during childbirth. Mike rejects this: (1) Paul uses sozo 28 times, and in every case it refers to spiritual salvation, never physical preservation from danger; (2) Many godly women throughout history have died in childbirth — this would make the promise empirically false; (3) The conditional clause 'if they continue in faith and love' strongly suggests spiritual salvation, not physical safety; (4) It creates a bizarre theology where physical safety in childbirth is conditioned on spiritual faithfulness; (5) The context of Eve's transgression and the need for salvation points to spiritual, not physical, deliverance.