Greg Anderson

Mark, re: #30

Your point about internal and external evidence concerning Paul’s Timothy letters is well taken, and if you’ll permit me, I’ll expand it.

Cheryl has demonstrated admirably that there is no compelling internal (Scripture) evidence that bans Godly women from teaching the Bible to men, because the apparent prohibition is repeated nowhere else in Scripture. Some will contend of course that there needn’t be any repetition because Paul has revealed a God-breathed prohibition and that’s that.

The problem with this view is that it makes Paul a new Moses, his letters a new Levitical code, and that Jesus’ death on the cross was not enough to satisfy a tyrant’s bloodthirst. In addition, it forces an interpretation of the Genesis account which is both unweildy and not at all in line with God’s character as revealed in the rest of Scripture. Kind of like trying to get the tail to wag the doggie rather than the other way ’round.