Cheryl Schatz

Mark,
You said:

your comment #137 is a whole lot of assumptions which is not in the text of Acts 16. Frankly i don’t see how you read out of Acts 16 that women were aloud to bring forth the word of God. Also i don’t see how that has any connection to what Paul is addressing in 1 Cor 14.

Actually I quoted from John MacArthur, a complementarian, in his MacArthur Study Bible and he gave the exact same interpretation as I did. I am wondering if you have a problem with having a complementarian agree with me that women were reading and commenting on the Bible in a public Jewish assembly?

Now I understand that you may not like that. Sure, that’s fine. But when a complementarian agrees that this is what is going on in a public Jewish assembly, you might want to think about why you are threatened by that. Neither John nor I are claiming that it was a Christian assembly by the river. But it was a public gathering where women were leading in prayer and bible reading.

Frankly i have shown why i believe a woman should not preach in the church. I’m not really sure what else you expect of me to show.

You have given us your opinion. What I would actually like is a verse by verse exegesis of the passage that shows where you get your view from in the context. I don’t have a hard time doing that. I do it all the time and I trust the Scriptures.

It is okay if you don’t want to do that. I am not going to push you, but perhaps you could just tell us that you decline to exegete the passage for us.