Cheryl

Thank you Michael for your great comments! The biggest issue is that in anyone’s interpretation of 1 Timothy 2:11-15 must include a coherent view of verse 15. Verse 15 is so carefully constructed that when one gets the previous verses wrong, verse 15 will not make sense. We must know who the “she” and the “they” are in verse 15 and be able to link back to them from verse 12 or else this passage cannot be interpreted without leaving out some of the inspired words and the inspired grammar. I say that we make sure that we stick to scripture and pay attention to the words and the grammar. This is especially true when we have difficult passages like this one. This passage is not impossible to understand. It is possible in context and verse 15 is so vitally important to verse 12 that without it verse 12 becomes a pretext for error.