leanne

Cheryl, thanks for emphasizing those verses in Romans 14. They certainly help add to the discussion, and I believe you are right on target.

Now, Mike, all I can say to you is that your arguments are really nothing more than slander. You start out by saying, “I’m not saying that “women teaching men” is on the same level as those who are homosexual” and then develop your whole argument based on the assumption that they are, in fact, the same. When you add, “Though I do not associate homosexuals and the gravity of that sin (Romans 1) with “woman teaching men”,” you are saying that women teaching men is a sin. Yet you yourself do not have a passage that says, “Women teaching men is a sin.” Even the verse you use to support your point does not say, “women teaching men is a sin” but only that Paul says, “I do not allow.” That’s a pretty big difference.

There are plenty of lists of sin in the New Testament, most of them written by Paul, and not one of them lists “women teaching men” as a sin. Slander, however, IS most definitely listed by Paul as a sin, in Col. 3:8 and Eph. 4:31. Peter lists it too in 1 Peter 2:1. And let’s not forget that Jesus himself spoke strongly against slander in Matt. 15:19 and Mark 7:22.

This kind of argumentation is nothing more than trying to prove guilt by association. You are reasoning thus: Group A uses these arguments. Group A is clearly in sin. Group B uses the same arguments. Therefore Group B is clearly also in sin. Ridiculous!

Mike, you are the one on the slippery slope here. Your argument has no merit, so you have to attack the people rather than the position.