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Happt Promise Keeper,

‘I challenge any of you here to quote anything from CBMW to prove that women are being somehow “suppressed” and “the turning away of many from the gospel” is caused by CBMW.’

The above is what I responded to. I did not have to provide a quote because we all know that CBMW holds the belief that women are not to teach men in the church. I claimed that women are suppressed under this teaching. I contrasted being human with being a woman, since to teach would be a human function, something that a woman could do. Then I gave reason for why this belief is held by CBMW and followers being a biased interpretation of 1 Tim 2.

Now IF the belief that women are not to teach men in church is false, then we can conclude that women have been held back not because of the truth of scripture, but because of false teaching and under false teaching they have been suppressed from something that God never prohibited them from doing.

So how do we know if it is a false teaching? Well, it’s NOT possible for anyone to be able to PROVE that Paul stopped all women from teaching in 1 Tim 2. How can 1/2 the church body JUSTIFIABLY be held back from doing something that cannot even be proven to be true from scripture through Paul? What we have is definately OPPRESSION since it is belief that people use to hold back women and not scriptural FACT. This is not opinion. This is the way it is. It is a fact that no one can prove that Paul stopped more than 1 woman from teaching in 1 Tim 2.

So let me make sure that I understand you correctly. You think that women should be held back from teaching men in the church when you yourself cannot even prove that Paul prohibited them from doing so? If this is true then you are the one with opinion, and you are the one who needs to justify the oppression of women.