Cheryl

Don,

Good news. I am taking a Greek class from the Greek scholar Dr. Bill Wagner. I asked him if in 1 Tim 2:15 whether the “she” (implied in the verb sothesetai) was theoretical or actual and he said he believed it was an actual person. He said Paul is very direct in his letters and Paul would not have written it this way to Timothy if Paul had wanted it to be theoretical. Bill is the author of “First Reader in New Testament Greek” which is the textbook for the class I am taking he personally knows all the famous names associated with the Greek NT.

Kudos to Dr. Bill Wagner. It seems to me that more people are coming out of the woodwork since my DVD set was produced. I was quite counter cultural with my exegesis and by that I mean even counter cultural among egalitarians. The reason is that I don’t just accept egalitarian literature without testing it by the Bible. When I went through the scriptures seeking to understand what the hard passages of scripture I didn’t accept the traditional egalitarian understanding of 1 Timothy 2:12 that Paul was stopping all women in Ephesus from teaching because they were poorly educated because it didn’t make sense with the reason for the prohibition given by Paul as the deception of Eve. Were all women in Ephesus deceived? And it didn’t make sense in verse 15 where we had to have a living “she” or the passage didn’t make sense. I got my understanding from only the Bible. I read no book and no secular source told me that the “she” was an individual woman. Now since my DVD went public, it seems that there are wonderful godly people coming to my attention who believe as I do that I had no idea about. I will certainly have to record that Dr. Bill Wagner is on board with same exegesis and I don’t think that Matt dares to call him a heretic.