Lin

“Regarding your post # 169, remember that what i am saying is that i think Cheryl mis-quoted the CBMW”

Mark, if there is one thing I do know for a fact it is that most people do not really know what all CBMW is teaching. One reason is because many of their contributors teach in quite a few venues. And the list of legalisms for comp/pat is so long no one can keep up!

We have to assume that CBMW affirms their teaching on this same subject in other venues. Did you ever read the CBMW article that talks about male headship in heaven? That is right! You heard it right. They have all kinds of Mormonistic and JW type of teaching over there. Did you read the article where Piper says that if a woman is working in a secular job and has male reports that she should never command them to do tasks. She must ‘suggest’ so it would not appear she is directing a man to do anything? Catch that one?

“You might think my view needs a Talmud, but all i am saying is this. Women should not teach in the gathered assemblies, it should be the resposiblilty of the pastor/elders who are to be men according to scripture. Seems pretty straight forward really.”

Where does it say men only? To get that definition one would also have to believe that it means no single men or married men without kids. You think it means that, too?

It really is not straightforward when one looks at the context within the entire Word and the Inspired grammar. I do believe the Word is inerrant but I do not think translators are inerrant.

What about the age thing? At what age should a boy be that a woman is not allowed to teach him?

And what exactly makes a formal and informal gathered assembly according to 1 Corinithians? Is there an example of an informal assembly somewhere in the NT so we can understand better?