Cheryl Schatz

Greg,
I agree that what may appear to some as a solitary unique doctrine that appears in a personal letter of Paul’s and never repeated again anywhere is not something that people should jump on to claim that it is a universal new law. After all how could one be a Berean this way? If Paul was teaching through a personal letter to Timothy a brand new doctrine (let’s say it is the new doctrine that all godly women are not allowed to teach correct biblical doctrine to men) then as a true Berean we need to ask where is the foundation for that doctrine in God’s first revelation (the OT)? Let’s pull out the OT just like the Bereans did and search the scriptures to see if it is so and gladly accept what is confirmed in the Scriptures. I am so glad that God was willing to repeat and repeat and repeat so that we can know for sure what is sin and what is not. The sin of women teaching correct biblical doctrine to men? It isn’t found in the OT, isn’t repeated by any apostle and is a interpretation of one passage of scripture that is bound to human tradition but never confirmed as God’s law. I believe it is time to challenge a tradition that binds God’s female “sons” and makes it difficult for them to carry on with the will of God without opposition. The world will oppose us but our brothers in Christ should not.