Cheryl

Lin,

I was in correspondence with Andreas Kostenberger while I was writing my script of WIM.  He is the one who proposed that 1 Timothy 2:15 means that women were promised by God that they would be kept spiritual safe if they stayed within the boundaries of their roles as wife and mother.  I asked him if this meaning was the true meaning of the verse why God would be prejudiced against men by not promising that they would be kept spiritually safe by remaining in their “roles” as husbands and fathers?  I also asked him wouldn’t this mean that God failed to keep his promise since many women who have stayed home to remain in their domestic “roles” have fallen prey to the Jehovah’s Witnesses?  He did not have an answer to my questions.  I think the view is faulty and unsupportable by either scripture or factual evidence.  It also doesn’t take into consideration that Paul uses both the singular feminine and third person plural in the verse.  I believe that without paying close attention to the inspired words, we are easily captured by our society’s preconceived patriarchal thinking.