At one time or one in a lifetime?
Have you considered that the Lord knows that men are less faithful than women and thus did not feel it necessary to make such an injunction concerning women. Just a thought.
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Your View On Women As Pastors
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At one time or one in a lifetime?
Have you considered that the Lord knows that men are less faithful than women and thus did not feel it necessary to make such an injunction concerning women. Just a thought.
pocadots1990
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One word. "UNSCRIPTURAL"
If a woman is the pastor of a church, then she and the church is going directly against the bible.
If a woman is the pastor of a church, then she and the church is going directly against the bible.
Amen. :applause:
Harold Garvey
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Are you aware that God chose Moses and not Miriam?
One woman man means one woman. Time is never mentioned. The death of the spouse releases the marriage vow and one of them should be in heaven.:saint:
What does the Law say about divorce? When you know that, you will have your answer...
It's not that simple.
It seems that simple to me, fairly straight forward against the Bible.
From my reading of Scripture, I'm not in favor of female pastors.
But I've engaged at a level with those who favor female pastors that I'm not one to dismiss the whole thing a priori.
Harold Garvey
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What does the Law say about marriage and that will answer your reference to divorce.
Harold Garvey
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Guess i'm just gonna ignore those higher levels of criticism and stick with the Bible.
What do you mean by "higher levels of criticism"?
Harold Garvey
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Higher criticism is a philosophy that goes against the grain of fundamentalism.
We have derived from the Greek the meaning of a "one woman man" to be that man is to be the husband of one wife until she dies. It goes right along with Scripture compared to Scripture to deny any deviations that allow the liberal agenda any foothold to go against Bible doctrine in any given area.
The example of God's choosing Moses over Miriam is a picture of male leadership over that of a woman. Why? Because even though Miriam was probably more "spiritual" than Moses and didn't think carnally as he did, God's choosing was for the purpose of God and not according to the rationality accompanied by higher criticisms.
Higher criticism lacks the element of faith in the Divine and even goes as far off into depravity as to deny the Bible as truth and also to deny the very existence of God.
Hope that answered it for ya.
That is not at all true. If you interpret Proverbs as wisdom literature then you are using some of the principles of higher criticism.
If you treat the epistles as letters then you are using some of the principles of higher criticism.
If you recognize literary genre then you recognize higher criticism.
While that did happen among some who promoted higher criticism it did not happen to all of them.
We do owe a lot to higher criticism.
Here's the grind: female pastors have nothing to do with higher criticism.
There are female pastors who have no idea what higher criticism.
Marcia
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But much of higher criticism was also anti-supernatural, and I'm sure you know that. They sought to explain miraculous event in the Bible through natural means, often rejected authors of the Bible (such as the 2 or more supposed authors of Isaiah), and read much of the OT as myth or allegory instead of literal events. I had to write a paper on higher criticism and a huge hunk of it was negative toward the Bible as God's revelation.
Thinkingstuff
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I think its pretty clear that the bible does not permit women to be pastors.
This has nothing to do with higher criticism. For example the word epistle simple means letter. They are synonyms. There is no criticism at all involved there, just a change of archaic English to modern English. There is much wisdom in Proverbs. Context always determines interpretation. It depends upon what portion of Scripture you speaking of. For example in Proverbs 8 one could say that it is a chapter of wisdom personified. We need to recognize the literary aspects of the Bible. That is simply a thorough study of God's Word, something we all should be involved. Higher Criticism is an out and out attack on the integrity of God's Word that denies the supernatural aspects of it, and its inspiration.
Harold Garvey
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if you apply Proverbs as wisdom you disregard higher criticism and are found to be obedient.
If you are admonished by the Epistles and respond in a godly manner you don't have to worry which principles of higher criticism are right or which ones are wrong.
If you take genre in the context of the literature then you aren't confused.
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