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Scarlett, we appreciate the work you have performed.
You are not moderating men, you are moderating the BaptistBoard.
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Rob

 

Hear! Hear!

 

I am a member of a Christian organization that evangelizes in public places. Only men can be members. We meet and among other things, bitterly squabble about politics, doctrinal issues, and about anything else you can think of. We still love each other. We still go out and evangelizes and win souls together. Men can argue quite heatedly and not take it personal.

 

I Tim 2:12 says what it says. Do we let culture define our theology or do we let Scripture define it?
V13 makes it plain that this is a continual command. It was not a command for a single moment in time.

 

(1) In this forum, both men and women participate with equal status. A participant has a choice whether they want to reveal their gender or not.

(2) This isn't a men's locker room. These "squabbles" that you mention would would not happen in a variety of different settings.

(3) The close relationship we share here on the BaptistBoard is an illusion; most of us have never seen each other or heard each other.
Subtile comments, heated conversations, sarcasm, and personal insults take on a whole different meaning in the absence of the ability to see each other.

(4) If you don't want a woman to moderate you, insure that you do not need to be moderated.

Rob

 

I Tim says what it plainly says. You just wrote multiple paragraphs to justify your not being willing to follow the plain commands of Scripture.
Is ITin 2:12 hard to understand? Hard to comprehend that Verse 13 makes it plain that it was not a cultural command, but a command based on the nature of the genders?

 

Please tell me that you know @Scarlett O. and you are just pulling her leg.

 

I Tim 2:12

 

I have, based on some of the things you have said in the past, sort of thought that maybe you are a little sensitive about being a woman. I had no idea of the attitudes of some of the folks on here and I sincerely apologize.

When I was still working I was in a hospital so having a woman supervisor is nothing to me and it has never occurred to me to try to apply 1 Timothy 2:12 to something outside a church service anyway. As a matter of fact, I don't even think it means what some of these guys think it means in church, but that's just me.

A full and proper discussion of such attitudes would require that the moderators disappear for a while so that's all I will say, except that an attitude that a female moderator is somehow a violation of Paul's teaching in 1 Timothy 2:12 may be the dumbest thing I have ever seen on this site.

 

Serious question: 1 Tim 2 also forbids women from "broided hair, or gold, or pearls, or costly array"-- how exactly would you enforce that? Badgering any women in the street wearing earrings?

 

I T 2 is not pertaining to women on the street.

 

EVERYWHERE is the context, in the passage. (v. 8 Paul wants men to pray "in every place"). Godly women in modest apparel (v. 9) performing good works (v. 10) is not a just-in-church thing.

v. 12, Young's Literal Translation, she is not to rule her husband. Marital relationship is the context. Two are to be one flesh. Thus the reference to Adam and Eve that follows immediately.

 

Well, I’m glad you are here, as are many others. I appreciate your insight into scripture and your perspectives.

I like to tell folks they are welcome to their beliefs, but their beliefs don’t necessarily affect me at all.

Don’t ever feel humiliated by the ignorance of others. The BB is not a church

peace to you

 

BINGO!

 

Ky. You took a partial quote which completely changed the meaning of what I was saying. There's an opening for you at CNN.