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Paula

2008-05-07

Not to mention the fact that “the woman” of vs. 14 HAS BECOME in transgression. The verb gegonen is parsed as 2nd. Perfect, active, 3rd person singular. If it were Eve, then she’d have to still be in a state of error, which was impossible at the time of Paul’s writing since Eve was long dead. The only way around that would be to make “woman” (there is no article in the Greek) mean “womankind” or “all women for all time”, which of course many people insist is the case in spite of other clear scriptures to the contrary.
So he’d have to show either how Eve is still in a state of error, or how the Bible clearly teaches that all women are still in a state of error, or he’ll have to admit that (as Occam’s Razor would dictate) only a particular woman alive at the time of Paul’s writing could have still been in a state of error.

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1Tim2Objections

2008-05-06