gengwall

Cheryl – your last paragraph in #45 is the most succinct description yet of the 1 Tim 2 passage and really pulls all of the discussions and analysis here in the last year or so together. Bravo. Here is the key to me. “If one starts with this presupposition [that Paul is making a global prhibition on women], it is very difficult to draw any sense from verse 15 in particular.” The converse is also true. If one looks at your summation above, the passage, and verse 15 in particular, make perfect sense. This evaluation of what makes “sense” is what really turned me around on this passage even before I started digging into the grammar. The comp viewpoint simply never made any sense. There were too many holes; too many contradictions. But now, thanks in great amount to the numerous discussions and “iron sharpening iron” that goes on here, Paul’s wisdom and instruction to Timothy makes perfect sense.