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Kay

Kay

2010-02-08

Mark wrote: “You again make the fundamental mistake when you say things like this…
In Titus 2:3 Paul instructs Titus, the pastor of Crete: “Likewise, tell the older women to be reverent in behavior, not to be slanderers or slaves to drink; they are to teach what is good.” The Greek word used for these older women is ‘presbutidas’.
These elders are instructed “to teach what is good.”

This is most definitely not about the office of eldership. You need to stop looking for egalitarian proof texts that are clearly not there. All you are doing is distorting the meaning of the passage. Paul is expounding good biblical qualities and living for the older men/women of the church. This is not about the office of eldership outlined in 1 Tim 2. It is not about elders in the spiritual governing sense.”
Mark,
How am I distorting the meaning? By not interpreting it with the comp’s presupposition that since it is about women it must have some other meaning than “Elders” who are “teaching”?

There is nothing directly in the text to preclude it from being female Elders.

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