Cheryl Schatz

Mark,
You said:

This is an interesting paragraph. I will assume it was because you were stressed with your husband. None the less i have not once twisted scripture. I quoted scripture which clearly shows that one of their responsibilities is teaching and that the bible only ever instructs men to be elders.

Telling someone they have twisted scripture is part of what I do. It is loving to correct error. You have not quoted scripture that equates teaching with elders alone. You have used logical fallacies to attach the two, but you have never established that scripture shows that the gift of teaching is given to men alone.

If your point is that only elders may teach the congregation, then to be consistent, men who are not yet elders also should never teach. Are you an elder? Do you teach?

I then said how i think that the gift of propechy is not the same gift as teaching. Now why is that twisting?

You twisted the scripture talking about the gift of teacher and you did a bait and switch by substituting elder. Elder is not a gift. You have twisted scripture by trying to change and passage on the gifts that is non-gendered and you have replaced one gift with something that is not a gift. You have admitted yourself that an elder is not a gift so why do you do this switch? Do you honestly not see how you have twisted the scripture?

I would also like to know if you are open to being corrected? Or is correcting a faulty application of the scripture something that only an elder is allowed to do and you will not allow me to point out your error and correct it?