Alison

They allow women to teach other women because: the deceived are all in the same camp, and if they lead each other astray, it only proves their point that women aren’t allowed to teach at all. (Note the sarcasm).

I read statements like MacArthur’s, and I think, oh please. I need a “head” like a fish needs a bicycle. I have a perfectly good one, and His Name is Jesus Christ. He is my Leader, Protector, Savior, and Source of Nourishment. He is all I need, independent of any man. I think by putting men in Christ’s place over women, he is committing a very serious act of idolatry, specifically that of reducing God to One who only upholds the prejudices and biases of man. He is also saying that Christ is insufficient for women, that they need something else beyond Christ, which is also idolatry! The Gospel is NOT Christ plus (fill in the blank, in this case, male headship); it is Christ plus NOTHING!

And as for the whole idea of “women being saved through childbearing”, where the (deleted) does that leave women who CAN’T have children? It seems like such an obvious question, and forgive me for asking it, but I happen to believe that tying salvation into childbearing makes it sound like works-righteousness, something that the Gospels (and Paul himself) disavow. Have they forgotten “By grace you are saved through faith, and this not from yourselves, it is the gift of God–not by works, so that no one can boast” (Ephesians 2:8-9). Methinks something stinks coming out of CBMW, and they need to be called out on it. I’m sorry for the obvious anger here, but it needed to be said. I can’t believe these people.