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Difficult v.15 should not overturn the clear teaching of vv.11-14

ALL The Debates Over 1 Tim 2_11-15: Women in Ministry part 12 (it took me a year to make this) 10:56:14 – 10:56:44

Mike states a key hermeneutical principle about how to handle verse 15.

Mike emphasizes that one's view on the difficult verse 15 should not change one's interpretation of the clearer verses 11-14. The claims egalitarians make should be evaluated based on vv.11-14, not leveraged through the ambiguity of v.15. Whatever v.15 means, it does not give leverage to reinterpret the clear restriction in v.12 or the clear creation-order reasoning in vv.13-14. The uncertain must not overturn the certain.

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