Cheryl Schatz

Don,

The premise is that there is no universal law that is not repeated in scripture.  I am not saying that God has to repeat the law to the exact same people that he said it to the first time.  What I am claiming is that every universal prohibition in scripture is never alone.  It is always with a second or third witness.

Deut 19:15 A single witness shall not rise up against a man on account of any iniquity or any sin which he has committed; on the evidence of two or three witnesses a matter shall be confirmed.

Jesus stated that his own testimony is invalid with a second witness.  John 5:31-37.  A judicial matter had to have a second witness to validate it. God’s testimony about sin is never alone.  God has provided a second witness repeating the charge of sin for every single universal sin.

The sin of adultery is universal.  It is repeated in Exodus 20:14, Deut 5:18 and numerous other places.

Drunkenness is a universal sin.  It is identified in Duet 21:20, Galatians 5:21, 1 Cor. 5:11 and ! Cor 6:10.

There is no prohibition given universally for all of time that is not repeated.  A universal prohibition that is forbidden for all is a “law’ of God.

Jesus submitted himself to the requirement for two or three witnesses for a judicial matter.  Every judicial matter is established with two or three witnesses.  God has followed his own requirements by providing a second or third witness for every single universal prohibition.

If the “sin” of a woman teaching the bible to men is a universal prohibition, it does not follow the pattern of every other universal prohibition.  There is no second witness to this supposed “law”.  It is a unique “law” that has not been proven as a God-given universal law.

See my other articles here:

http://strivetoenter.com/wim/2006/11/29/does-god-have-one-unique-law-part-one/

http://strivetoenter.com/wim/2006/12/07/does-god-have-one-unique-law-part-two/

http://strivetoenter.com/wim/2006/12/09/does-god-have-one-unique-law-part-three/

1.  It is a fact there there is no universal law given that is not repeated.

2.  It has not been established that the “sin” of a woman teaching the bible to men is a universal law or that it is a punishable “sin”.

3.  If it is a “law” that all godly women are forbidden to teach doctrine to men, then this “law” is unlike any of God’s other laws.

4.  If there is no other universal prohibition that is not repeated in scripture, so we see God offering a minimum of a second witness, and since Jesus himself subjected his own testimony to the requirement of two or three witnesses, we must either say that there is one unique “law” that does not need to be an established judicial matter or we can accept the fact that repetition is for our safety and God has provided the repetition for us so that we can be assured of knowing what is sin and what is against God’s law.

5.  Repetition is for our safety (Philippians 3:1) and a charge of sin from a “law” that has not been established judicially is not safe.

Lastly, if I am wrong, then it should not take much to prove me wrong from my own source of authority – God’s word.  If there is even one judicial universal prohibition that is not repeated in scripture, then I am wrong.  I submit my case to the evidence of scripture.  Every single universal prohibition follows the exact same pattern.  Every one of them is repeated in scripture.  Every one of them has a second witness.  God has not given all of us a charge of sin without the safety of repetition so that we can know and understand what is sin without question and without excuse.

I ask, where is the second witness that women are not allowed to teach the bible to men?

Where is the second witness that women are to be silenced in the church?

There is no second witness to either of these “laws”.  This is not safe, it is not God’s pattern and it does not follow the judicial system requiring a charge of sin to have a second or third witness.  Since Jesus followed this pattern just as his Father followed the pattern with every other sin, I rest my case.