Chris

Cheryl, I see a lot of views discussed on your blog that, IMO, don’t represent the best of modern complementarianism/patriarchalism. I’m not sure what the point of responding to all of the lame “patriarchalist” views is, but if you want to follow the principle of charity with complementarians and patriarchalists, I suggest you familiarize yourself with their strongest arguments. Given the stuff your blog posters are responding to, one would think they’ve never read a decent complementarian or patriarchalist article in their lives. In that connection, I recommend:

John Piper, who represents part of my view on this fairly well:
http://www.soundofgrace.com/piper89/6-25-89.htm

For the meaning of “saved through childbearing” I recommend Andreas Köstenberger’s paper:

http://biblicalfoundations.org/pdf/Studies14.pdf

Though I would differ a little with Köstenberger in that I suspect “childbearing” is a metonymy rather than a synecdoche.

And finally, if you really want to see a comprehensive treatment, get William Mounce’s commentary on the Pastoral Epistles and get Women in the Church by Andreas Köstenberger. Put one in your left hand, and the other in your right.