Paula
2009-01-28
I always like to point out that 1 Timothy 2:14 says “the woman” he’s talking about is STILL in error. The Greek indicates a past event with continuing effect in the present, i.e. “has fallen” instead of “fell” or “had fallen”. Therefore Paul is not referring to Eve but to the woman in the passage who is in transgression.
And although I’d use different arguments for why God did what and when in creation week, we’d all agree that there’s nothing about authority of one person over another there at all.
And yet again, the burning question: Why would any believer even want such authority, especially after reading Phil. 2:5-11 and Jesus’ “not so among you”? Will any of the male supremacists ever face that?
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