Cheryl Schatz

4. Lastly, Mark you asked:

If this text is dealing with a specific woman and her husband you should at least be consistent with your grammatical approach and say that ‘love’, ‘sanctification’ and ‘sobriety’ are all required elements for this ‘they’ to be ‘saved’, since these are all part of the ‘conditional’ clause.

The conditional clause is set up only for her salvation. The Scripture doesn’t say “they will be saved…if…” I believe that Paul said what he meant and meant what he said. It was only her salvation that was in question.

Thanks for your questions and your challenges! It is always a pleasure to be able to show that the interpretation that I hold to is consistent with each of the inspired words, the inspired grammar and the inspired context.

A challenge back to you….where does God have any rules or any law that would forbid godly teachers from teaching the truth of His word? Please back up your very unconventional hermeneutic from the Scriptures.