teknomom

Just a thought, one I haven’t seen yet in the WB thread (but of course it’s a little off-topic anyway):

Titus 1:5 says Titus was to “appoint elders”, and the Greek word is “presbuterous” (masc.). In chapter 2 verse 2 we see the words “presbutas” (masc.) and “presbutidas” (fem.). All have the same root word. Whoever is being appointed in ch. 1 is being addressed also in ch. 2, and the people they are to train are not **young** but **new believers**.

So the jaw-dropping teaching of scripture here is that the appointed (maybe even “ordained”) elders are to teach the new believers. What it does NOT say is that old women are to teach young women!

But the biggest point of all is that whoever is doing the teaching in ch. 2 had to be APPOINTED. Age cannot be appointed!

Just thought I’d share that.