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View 4: Saved through proper female roles (Douglas Moo's preferred view)

ALL The Debates Over 1 Tim 2_11-15: Women in Ministry part 12 (it took me a year to make this) 10:17:29 – 10:29:14

Mike presents Moo's view that childbearing represents the broader female role, and salvation attends faithful role-fulfillment.

Douglas Moo interprets: (1) Sozo = spiritual salvation in the eschatological sense; (2) Teknogonia = not literally bearing children, but childbearing as a synecdoche (a part representing the whole) for proper female roles — mothering, homemaking, raising children; (3) Dia = attendant circumstances, not instrumental cause — women are not saved BY doing these things, but these things attend/accompany genuine salvation as fruit of the Spirit; (4) This fits the broader context of 1 Tim 2 about proper roles; (5) Tom Schreiner supports this: the virtues described are evidence of new life in Christ, not the cause of salvation — like how Jesus says good trees bear good fruit. Supporting evidence: 1 Tim 5:10 (women should bring up children), 1 Tim 5:14 (younger widows should marry, bear children), 1 Tim 4:3 (false teachers forbid marriage).

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