yes, guess they would be just good to have children.....
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Sunday School teacher question
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terrpn
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SheepWhisperer
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Have and RAISE children. No greater job than being a good mother.
The one you posted:
1 Timothy 2:12 King James Version (KJV) 12 But I suffer not a woman to teach, nor to usurp authority over the man, but to be in silence.
SheepWhisperer
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Context; It's talking about "teaching" and "usurping authority" over men.
They are also instructed to be in silence because it is the men only who are to teach.
Whenever a woman teaches she usurps God's authority for men ONLY to teach.
it's the 12 apostles not the 12 apostlettes.
terrpn
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Settled, no confusion and time to move on........
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SheepWhisperer
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No, the "aged women" are to teach the younger women. They are just not to teach men.I don't mean they are to stand in the pulpit like on Sunday morning. We're talking about Sunday School
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I'm in my late 70's, a Sunday School teacher of seniors and I have learned considerably from women. They do not usurp my authority.
in fact I ask them to contribute to the class and we all learn including the men.
Also in our small group meetings the women are marvelous in their wisdom and understanding of God's word.
A senior deacon leads the class and we discuss the Sunday sermon. I look forward to the fellowship and discussions.
I don't believe its settled but I agree to move on.
atpollard
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I am pretty sure the church at Corinth or Galatia didn’t have a Sunday School for Teens and Young Adults that Priscilla might have been asked to teach as she and Aquila were passing through.
So what exactly did it mean to be a “teacher” in Paul’s day?
Didn’t Jesus and Paul both teach in the synagogue on the Sabbath?
Is that the sort of thing that he was forbidding in the churches?
Is that more like giving the sermon in a modern church?
What seems insidious about this issue, is we can easily be well intentioned, but fall into the same trap as the Pharisees. God said the Sabbath was to be a day of rest, and to avoid ‘not resting’ they added more and more restrictions until Jesus had to rebuke them for turning a blessing into a curse.
I want to make sure that women are not doing anything that God has instructed through his Apostle that they should not be doing. However, I do not want to place any additional Phariseeical restrictions on them that God has not instructed us to place on them.
Just my two cents.
So what exactly did it mean to be a “teacher” in Paul’s day?
Didn’t Jesus and Paul both teach in the synagogue on the Sabbath?
Is that the sort of thing that he was forbidding in the churches?
Is that more like giving the sermon in a modern church?
What seems insidious about this issue, is we can easily be well intentioned, but fall into the same trap as the Pharisees. God said the Sabbath was to be a day of rest, and to avoid ‘not resting’ they added more and more restrictions until Jesus had to rebuke them for turning a blessing into a curse.
I want to make sure that women are not doing anything that God has instructed through his Apostle that they should not be doing. However, I do not want to place any additional Phariseeical restrictions on them that God has not instructed us to place on them.
Just my two cents.
According to the Mounce dictionary, the term teach in 1 Timothy 2:12 is meant for teaching or addressing an assembly. The logic of whether to allow women to teach in Sunday School is whether such a forum is a mixed gender assembly of believers. The thought I used earlier was that they seem reminiscent of house churches and would count. Of course, I could be wrong.