Frank

Thirdly, other complementarians, such as Gary Crampton, (who wrote “The Bible and Women Preachers” in the Trinity Journal), have admitted that on the basis of both the major Greek lexicons and NT texts such as Colossians 3:16-17, this distinction often made between “prophecy” and teaching has little, if any, biblical authority and so is invalid. Indeed, because he tightly holds on to a complementarian view of this issue, Mr. Crampton reinterprets 1 Cor. 11-14, say Paul didn’t really mean to teach that men and women could prophesy together as equals–it was all a hypothetical sham!

Fourthly, this intepretation of these Pauline passages (1 Cor. 14:33-34 and 1 Tim. 2:11-15), divorces them from their historical, cultural and literary contexts, ignores what the rest of Scripture says who is gifted and called to prophetic ministry, and makes two ambiguous Pauline texts the rule of all the other Scriptures that go against the complementarian understanding. A terrible violation of basic biblical intepretative methods, that all Protestants, in principle, hold to.

Well, enough said on this for now. God’s blessing on you, Cheryl!