Cheryl Schatz

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The big issue is whether “seems” and “likely” are good enough to warrant a charge of sin. This is a very serious issue and sin is not something to be taken likely. Can you imagine God saying that adultery “seems” like it is a sin or Paul saying that it is “likely” that God doesn’t allow adultery as a “general pattern”? How absurd! Then should we allow patriarchists to speculate about women’s sin? It is my firm opinion that we need to stand up and draw a line in the sand. Sin is not something that “fits” into any kind of “seems to” or “likely” category. God is gracious in his wisdom to make sin clear to us. There is no unclear sound of the trumpet for a battle call against sin. Sin is sin and unclear sin is never ever a part of God’s way of doing business with the human race. God makes sin clear, understandable with punishable. The “sin” of women teaching the bible to men is so far off that standard that it makes me scratch my head to try to understand how we have accepted it as sin for so long.