Cheryl Schatz

Lin,
You ask very good questions. The thought had also occurred to me that I would be teaching in the debate and would that be a sin for Mike to read? If we are to follow Mike’s application of the Scriptures, then it seems like Mike would have had to employ a woman teacher to debate me. Mike’s argument seems to be that women are the ones who are to evaluate women’s teaching so that men don’t have to hear women teachers and risk breaking the command.

However Mike did make a provision for a man to listen to and judge the teaching of a woman in order to correct him. But would it be a sin for a man to hear the teaching but fail in his “male role” of correction? Mike has not been able to correct me. In fact he has not been able to answer the challenges I have given him. So when does it become a sin for him? I suppose that this will now become an issue where CBMW will have to judge since apparently they are the only ones who can interpret the incomplete complementarian law which never makes clear the division between the what should be considered good and what is now evil or sinful. Trouble is CBMW doesn’t have the answers either. It is all a grey area where no one seems to know what is sin or what is not.

It all comes down to what Paul described as a unclear sound coming from a bugle call that is not understood. This describes the complementarian position to a tee. They have forsaken the biblical way of establishing a law and are now stuck with trying to work out a command that cannot be reconciled with the spirit of God’s law.