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Scripture Commentary article 2006-07-07

Isnt The Priesthood In The Ot Proof That God Uses Only Men

> Q: Isn’t the fact that God only chose men for the Priesthood in the Old Testament proof that God only uses men in leadership. After all the Priesthood is equivalent to the Pastorhood in the church

Exodus 19:5-8 Exodus 19:6 Women in Leadership

Scripture Commentary article 2006-03-11

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1 Timothy 2 Women in Leadership Complementarianism

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@TabeStorm @MikeWingerii My OP was meant to point out that the Bible is stating

@TabeStorm @MikeWingerii My OP was meant to point out that the Bible is stating a fact and not commanding the husband to be the head. But my question is why do we think head means authority over? Lea

Isnt The Priesthood In The Ot Proof That God Uses Only Men

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@TabeStorm @MikeWingerii My OP was meant to point out that the Bible is stating

Leadership is about showing others by example, not necessarily having any author

"...men are still told to lead their families and [to] be the heads of their wives...only men can be leaders in the church and that distinction remains...we don't have the same roles" ⎯ @MikeWingerii Where are men told to lead their families? ...to...

@grok @WalterKissus @dalepartridge Your logic is getting more contorted and harder to follow. What do you mean that male apostolic foundation sustains this design? Are only Jews leaders of the churches around the world? Because they were 12 Jewish ma...

@grok @WalterKissus @dalepartridge Well, your skill of analysis needs improving then. There is no complementarian (male only leadership) as divinely ordained. God makes that clear by giving the SAME commands to both male and female in Gen 1:28. Where...

@DanielleMc24097 @dalepartridge No it doesn’t. You might want to read the Bible

@LDSMormon A Christian cult is not based on whether the leaders pay themselves o

@JohnRayKite @TheLaurenChen Hm. So the Jews were first. Even Paul says “to the Jew first, then the Gentile.” Does that mean only Jews can be leaders? As for the fall, there is certainly something there to be explored. Paul says that Adam wasn’t dece...

@JohnRayKite @TheLaurenChen Leading is demonstrating by example as Jesus said that no Christian is to ‘Lord it over’ another. So it’s not about a position of authority over others. Can you explain why women can be led by either but men seem to have ...

@TheLaurenChen @hellsitehero I'm not sure you have a proper view of what leaders

@HvacRoar24011 Right. And how did the Jewish leadership see Jesus? Who kept trying to put Paul to death? Yet Paul still continued to pray for their salvation and to preach the gospel to them first. Stop focusing on being persecuted. Jesus said that ...

@grok @CDDTReborn @autocorrect2_0 @alcadizzar19 Westfall seems to see the issue here being that the woman is forcefully taking over leadership; my view is that this is not about 'usurping authority' or anything of that sort, simply that those who kno...

@iheartJ37 @JoeAdrian256 @dalepartridge @ostrachan I probably should have stated where I agree with you. You are right that even if someone remains a complementarian, the scripture is clear in both what is said and the example of Jesus and His apostl...

@BronWen727104 We are so close in our views I don’t want to quibble much, but I

@WellRedneck Thanks for sharing some examples. However, I’d argue that your definition of submission (ie. always deferring even when you think the other person is wrong) creates serious problems. Blind deference is exactly what has allowed corrupt g...

@ChristOverChaos @Eric_Conn @iliketopreach What created order are you referring

@McMuffin11111 @SearlJk47427 @Eric_Conn @iliketopreach Jesus chose 12 male Jews as the 12 representatives of the tribes of Jacob. This wasn't about deciding who was allowed to be a leader in the church else only Jews can be leaders and I'm sure you d...

@McMuffin11111 @Eric_Conn @iliketopreach How did I take 1Ti 2:12 out of context? 1Co 11:3 has nothing to do with authority but is all about origins. In Sarah’s day, calling someone ‘lord’ was like using the term ‘sir,’ a term of respect. If leader...

@HisWordForever I have seen church leaders believe that they cannot fail to be right because they were all in unity and because they prayed. Yet they were wrong. That’s the message you are communicating here that praying and being in agreement mean ...

@grok @ThomasLinge24 @TheOfficeCalvin @VirgilWalkerOMA That’s actually a great question. It is tricky to resolve as we are again creatures of habit and have become lazy and dependent on hired preachers and leaders. It may have to go through a reset t...

@grok @ThomasLinge24 @TheOfficeCalvin @VirgilWalkerOMA The biggest challenge is that people are creatures of habit and change feels like heresy, particularly in hotly debated issues such as leadership roles, gender and authority. Many feel like hiera...

@DoctrineTruth @CherylSchatz @JoeyRogersMBC Yes, wives should be subject to their husbands. And husbands should also be to their wives (Eph 5:21). Being the head doesn’t mean being the boss of or authority over someone. If it means this, why is it o...

@smashbaals As I explored MacArthur’s teachings on Calvinism and women in leader

@mr_shiplet I have been told by more than one church that either I’m not welcome into leadership given my non-Calvinist soteriology or worse, that I’m not saved as they claim I’m semi-Pelagian because I’m not a Calvinist. It is frequently divisive a...

@DanielRHyde What do you mean by “all along”? They didn’t exist prior to the reformation, did they? BTW, communion represents Jesus’ body which is the church and church ‘discipline’ is something done by the body, not by the leaders. About the conti...

@1_of__99 @RevKimWChafee Where do you get the idea that male headship means auth

@JamesEwen0407 @sola_chad Sure there are. I’ll link a text which lists 10 of them. BTW, the church is simply a gathering of believers. If 10 people gather and none are appointed leaders, you still have church. It is healthier to have people appointe...

@iroquoisplskn87 Oh, God established rulers of countries and governments and pol

@Prov_Standards There is no hierarchy for leadership because we are all brothers and sisters in Christ. Leaders are only those who demonstrate by example and are gifted and capable of teaching what was passed onto them, and correcting error. The auth...

@Paula_333 @BronWen727104 Paul is introducing her to the church at Rome so they will immediately accept her and support her by serving under her leadership as normally it takes time to recognize leaders. I don’t see how you get the idea she wasn’t a...

@Paula_333 @BronWen727104 Interesting…you are one of very few who call Paul a pastor. Because 1Ti 3:2 appears to disqualify singles and females from serving as elder/pastor. Nowhere does scripture say that Priscilla was under the authority of her hu...

@Prov_Standards All of the scripture is about Christ. So when you share and teach God's Word, you are 'preaching Christ'. Leadership is simply those who are of exemplary character and lead by example and able to train and correct others. The only o...

@Paula_333 @BronWen727104 Rom 16 lists many female leaders. Leading in the churc

@Crystalisives I like to frame it as 'authority over' because that accurately de

@LiamHarperBlack @autocorrect2_0 But head doesn't mean 'the boss of'. Yes, that's right, this passage is not meaning to explain to us that the glorified Jesus is the boss of the church. As God who created and sustains everything, *obviously* he's the...

@Saved5872 @MikeWingerii I carefully studied all the passages that appeared at first glance to restrict or prevent women from leadership, serving as elders or pastors or to prevent them from speaking ‘authoritatively’…but what I found is that in each...

@MikeWingerii Excellent collection of scripture. Leaders being the slaves of all

@AChristianLens @BibleInContext1 So basically, your authority is the bishops and

@iheartJ37 @Pastor_Gabe @jerryzz2 That may be part of it, but I don’t think that “good reputation” meant that people didn’t think the church leader was crazy or has lost their minds or that sort of thing. So I don’t think he meant that the world acce...

@autocorrect2_0 @Pastor_Gabe This presumes head in scripture means leader or ‘on

@CrossPolitic The thing people have an issue with is when it is made to seem tha

@Pastor_Gabe @megbasham What’s wrong with women being included in leadership?

@GrownInFaith @churchtalkative Not does it say he shouldn’t…yet there is Eph 5:2

@WillYoungIII I don’t know if you have rain where you live, but where I live, on

@ncksmith Imagine if the body was only female and the leadership was only male.

@PatrickHen1776 @Jiwan_Ko_Pani @oliverburdick But head isn’t about being the bos

@BiblicalBeauty @DwightsWordOTD This is a good question. Egalitarians don’t maintain that there are no distinctions between male and female. It is just that those distinctions are why they need to work together and they don’t justify having gender ro...

@megbasham Hm. It seems in this case that some churches believe that their leadership should be only male. Fine. I go to a church like that. But if a church reads the text and draws a different conclusion without rejecting the inspired text, why are ...

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@LiamHarperBlack @autocorrect2_0 But head doesn't mean 'the boss of'. Yes, that's right, this passage is not meaning to explain to us that the glorified Jesus is the boss of the church. As God who created and sustains everything, obviously he's the...