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Cheryl said:
‘Guys,

As you listen to the audio from last night’s debate remember one thing…I asked to share why I believed that “a woman” was a particular woman and not “all women” and Matt refused to allow me to share this. He called me a heretic without even hearing my argument to the end. I asked Matt to tell me what it was in the passage that made him believe that Paul was restricting all women from teaching men and Matt went outside the passage to do this. Friends, this means that there is NOTHING in 1 Timothy chapters 1, 2, or 3 that would make us believe that Paul is stopping the teaching of every godly Christian woman since Matt was unable to bring even one argument to the table from the passage we were talking about. Think about this!’

Yes, thank you! That’s what I noticed yesterday and was going to post on last night but did not…!

Cheryl said:
‘I have asked complementarians everywhere to give a defense of their belief that “a woman” is every Christian woman by asking them to then tell me who the “she” is from 1 Timothy 2:15 and who are the “they”. I have yet to have a single one of them able to give me a coherent answer. They just don’t know. And apparently Matt doesn’t know either because he stopped me from discussing verse 15. Is that confidence that he has the truth or is he running away from something that he has no answer to? Maybe we will never know because he will not dare to have back on his radio show. He simply cannot afford to talk about verse 15.’

I had a patriarchalist tell me that ‘she’ in verse 15 is Eve who represents all women (so ‘she’ really means singular ‘woman’) and then the following plural ‘they’ means all women. As much as I tried to understand any logic of such a conclusion, none was available and so I hardly had a response since I was so taken aback that such an argument would even be put forth.

Justa berean, hi! I can recognize my berean folk. *wink…* Here’s the link: http://carmpodcasting.blogspot.com/