Charis
2007-10-02
Reading through this, I have such respect for you, Cheryl, to take such persecution with grace! I never heard of Matt Slick, but I have felt oppressed as a Christian woman. And the verse you are discussing above is one of the “clubs”.
I prayed and asked God to show me what 1Tim 2:11-15 means.
I want to share where that went. I am not as knowledgable as you in the greek, but it does not seem incompatible with your findings:
This is the rendering which I think reflects the meaning of the verse:
She (Eve/woman) will be saved (restored) through bearing the child if they (women) continue in…
How could it mean Christian “salvation” because it is dependant upon “they”?
“will be restored” is in the future.
Restored HOW?
I think it refers to the verse before (see below)
I think in any woman who allows Jesus to be formed in her and “continues in…” Eve/woman is restored to the garden state before the transgression: garden intimacy, partaking of the “tree of life”/Jesus, garden dominion/authority.
Quote:
1Tim 2:14-15 interlinear
Adam not was-deceived the but woman being-deceived in transgression has-become;
She-will-be-saved but through the childbearing if they-remain in faith and love and holiness with sensibleness
Taken with my understanding of 1Tim 2:14, “THE CHILD bearing”/Christ being formed in me
(see also Gal 4:19-5:1 and Rev 12 – parallel passages on the childbirthing)
this interpretation would resolve the appearance that the curse on Eve seems to exempt single women:
Quote:
Ge 3:16 ¶ Unto the woman he said, I will greatly multiply thy sorrow and thy conception; in sorrow thou shalt bring forth children; and thy desire shall be to thy husband, and he shall rule over thee.
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