Cheryl Schatz

Steve,
Many say that Paul’s meaning is “clear” and “simple”. The problem with this is that those who say that Paul’s wisdom is “clear” and “simple” may be of the ones who distort Paul’s words in their context.

The apostle Peter said:

2 Peter 3:15 and regard the patience of our Lord as salvation; just as also our beloved brother Paul, according to the wisdom given him, wrote to you,
2 Peter 3:16 as also in all his letters, speaking in them of these things, in which are some things hard to understand, which the untaught and unstable distort, as they do also the rest of the Scriptures, to their own destruction.

If we do not want to be of those who distort the words of Paul then we need to make sure that our interpretation fits with the entire context. Those who cannot answer the hard questions that come from the entire passage including the extremely hard saying of Paul in 1 Timothy 2:15 need to rethink if the passage is really as “clear” and “simple” as they claim.

I also challenge my brothers in Christ who believe that I am wrong to show me where I am wrong. It is one thing to say that the passage is “clear” and my interpretation is wrong, but if they cannot show the holes in my argument, then they have failed in their oversight.

Blessings,
Cheryl