justa berean

Perfect word Don.

Now for a bit of rambling about the debate…..

Interesting Matt interrupted Cheryl from answering an important point. Matt claims that the whole reason of the epistle is in 1 Tim. 3:15. When Cheryl attempted go to Scripture to point out that was in direct reference to chapter one, he only let her get out two or three sentences before he started complaining that she was taking too long to answer. He went on to pontificate that if a person couldn’t answer a question in two or three sentences then they didn’t know what they are talking about. Then a little further he states that her logic just isn’t that good. Notice that he never came back to ask again the question he didn’t allow Cheryl to finish answering…. Which really she did answer.

And BTW that answer, that 3:16 is about church meetings is an old argument trying to cause 2:12 to refer to “the pulpit” in Sunday worship. Problem is that “the house of God” is not a church building or meeting place, but it represents the whole body of Christ in every day living, not just in assemblies.

Then this is where Matt clearly says he does not want to ask Cheryl why she believes what she believes, because it is his show and he is afraid she will take up the rest of the time with her answer.

After that he goes on to call Cheryl very deceived. He says that if a woman spoke in his church, he would get up and leave. Continually interrupting Cheryl, agrees she is a heretic, pretty clearly mocking, saying he cannot get anywhere with her. Saying he doesn’t want to sound mean BUT…. Mocks her ability to rattle off Greek words, more and more criticism of long answers. Yet in reality Cheryl never got to give a long answer because Matt kept interrupting her. And then he claims he cannot get a word in edgewise. Sounds like distractions and stalling to me.

Matts claim that ALL teaching (I’m assuming prophecies) is done by man does not equate to a rule that only men are qualified to write prophesies or speak them. Actually, there are several prophesies, teachings in Scripture that are from women. In fact there were schools of prophets (both male and female) in the OT. Not every prophesy or teaching was written down. The fact that they were copied/quoted in books likely by men does not create an unwritten rule that women cannot write, speak, teach.