Women1 Timothy 2

Can’t live with ‘em,Can’t live without ‘em

A Famous “Problem Passage”1 Timothy 2:9-12 2:9  Likewise, I want women to adorn themselves with proper clothing, modestly and discreetly, not with braided hair and gold or pearls or costly garments, 10  but rather by means of good works, as is proper for women making a claim to godliness. 11  A woman must quietly receive instruction with entire submissiveness. 12  But I do not allow a woman to teach or exercise authority over a man, but to remain quiet.

1 Timothy 2:13-152:13 For it was Adam who was first created, and then Eve. 14 And it was not Adam who was deceived, but the woman being deceived, fell into transgression. 15 But women will be preserved [lit: “Saved”] through the bearing of children if they continue in faith and love and sanctity with self-restraint.

1 Timothy 2:15 (KJV)  Notwithstanding she shall be

saved in childbearing, if they continue in faith and charity and holiness with sobriety.

What’s the Problem?1. Identify the problem(s) in the passage and show

the opposing views which make it a problem.

1 Timothy 2:12 (KJV) But I suffer not a woman to teach, nor to usurp authority over the man, but to be in silence!!

NOT: “I don’t like it!”

1 Timothy 2:5-6 For there is one God, and one

mediator also between God and men, the man Christ

Jesus, who gave Himself as a ransom for all, the

testimony given at the proper time.

Rather:

Contradictions with scripture

Opposing critical interpretations.

What’s the Problem?1. Identify the problem(s) in the passage and show

the opposing views which make it a problem.

TraditionalWomen can’t teach/lead

(v.12)

Easily deceived/deceivers (v.14)

Keep women barefoot & “preggers” (v.15)

Tertullian to women: “Are you ignorant that you are an Eve? The sentence of God still lives upon your sex even in this present age, and of necessity the guilt lives on too. You are the devil’s gateway, you are the unsealer of that tree, you are the first destroyer of divine law, you are she who persuaded him whom the devil was unwilling to attack directly.”

What’s the Problem?1. Identify the problem(s) in the passage and show

the opposing views which make it a problem.

TraditionalWomen can’t teach/lead

(v.12)

Easily deceived/deceivers (v.14)

Keep women barefoot & “preggers” (v.15)

RadicalThese women need

education

Do not allow our freedom to cause chaos: keep

order.

Luke 10:41-42 But the Lord answered and said to her, "Martha, Martha, you are worried and bothered about so many things; but only one thing is necessary, for Mary has chosen the good part, which shall not be taken away from her."

Galatians 3:28  There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free man, there is neither male nor female; for you are all one in Christ Jesus.

1 Timothy 5:1-2 5:1  Do not sharply rebuke an older man, but rather appeal to him as a father, to the younger men as brothers, the older women as mothers, and the younger women as sisters, in all purity.

What’s the Problem?1. Identify the problem(s) in the passage and show

the opposing views which make it a problem.2. List the realistic alternative interpretations

(omitting the obviously unrealistic interpretations). “The Role of Women in the

Church” Peter Ditzel“Women in general have a tendency to be more easily duped than men. Because of this tendency, they are not to be teachers, or preachers, or hold an office (which implies authority) in church.”

Empirically Disproven

• More in college & graduatingBasically FALSE

• Who cares?

Castrate the Male Leaders

• Matthew 19:12 "For there are eunuchs who were born that way from their mother's womb; and there are eunuchs who were made eunuchs by men; and there are also eunuchs who made themselves eunuchs for the sake of the kingdom of heaven. He who is able to accept this, let him accept it."

What’s the Problem?1. Identify the problem(s) in the passage and show

the opposing views which make it a problem.2. List the realistic alternative interpretations

(omitting the obviously unrealistic interpretations). 3. Write out the thought development

(context).Near Context

2:1 Fellowship together

Larger Context

1:18 “Fight…”

1:3 “stop teaching strange doctrines”

What’s the Problem?1. Identify the problem(s) in the passage and show

the opposing views which make it a problem.2. List the realistic alternative interpretations

(omitting the obviously unrealistic interpretations). 3. Write out the thought development (context).4. Check the historical background of the book

for any information which might shed light on the passage.

We suggest that 1 Timothy 2:13-14 is concerned not with laying the blame on women but with a strong repudiation of a popular false teaching which glorified Eve and the serpent. Kroeger and Kroeger, I Suffer Not a Woman: Rethinking I Timothy 2:11-15 in Light of Ancient Evidence

What’s the Problem?1. Identify the problem(s) in the passage and show

the opposing views which make it a problem.2. List the realistic alternative interpretations

(omitting the obviously unrealistic interpretations). 3. Write out the thought development (context).4. Check the historical background of the book

for any information which might shed light on the passage.

1:3 “stop teaching strange doctrines”

4:3 men who forbid marriage and

advocate abstaining from foods…

5:13 [younger widows are] learning to be

idle, as they go around from house to house…talking about things not proper to

mention.

2 Ti. 3:6 those who enter into households

and captivate idle women…

1 Tim. 6:20 O Timothy, guard what has been entrusted to you, avoiding worldly and empty chatter and the opposing arguments of what is falsely called “knowledge”— 21 which some have professed and thus gone astray from the faith.

What’s the Problem?1. Identify the problem(s) in the passage and show

the opposing views which make it a problem.2. List the realistic alternative interpretations

(omitting the obviously unrealistic interpretations). 3. Write out the thought development (context).4. Check the historical background of the book for

any information which might shed light on the passage.

5. Identify key words and perform word studies on them.But I do not allow a woman to

teach or exercise authority over a man, but to remain quiet.

“do not allow”

Present tense: “Not currently

allowing”

We KNOW Paul taught & led with women elsewhere

“exercise authority”

Authentein: “domineer”

Only occurance in NT

What’s the Problem?1. Identify the problem(s) in the passage and show the

opposing views which make it a problem.2. List the realistic alternative interpretations (omitting

the obviously unrealistic interpretations). 3. Write out the thought development (context).4. Check the historical background of the book for any

information which might shed light on the passage.5. Identify key words and perform word studies on them.6. Identify and examine helpful parallel passages

Paul mentions several women, including Priscilla, as “fellow laborers” and asks that Christians be subject to such as these (Phil. 4:2-3; Rom. 16:3-4, 6, 12; 1 Cor. 16:16, 19).

Junia is called a “noteworthy apostle” (Rom. 16:7)

Conclusions

•There is a HUGE difference between “Church Tradition” and the Bible

Conclusions

•There is a HUGE difference between “Church Tradition” and the Bible•Women: arise! Get educated! Teach, lead, be significant!

Conclusions

•There is a HUGE difference between “Church Tradition” and the Bible•Women: arise! Get educated! Teach, lead, be significant!•Our faith should be radical, dangerous, setting people free from cultural prisons!Galatians 5:1 It was for freedom that

Christ set us free; therefore keep standing firm and do not be subject again to a yoke of slavery.

Conclusions

•There is a HUGE difference between “Church Tradition” and the Bible•Women: arise! Get educated! Teach, lead, be significant!•Our faith should be radical, dangerous, setting people free from cultural prisons!•Yet our freedoms must not promote anarchy, chaos, or disrespect.

1 Timothy 2:13 For it was Adam who was first created, and then Eve.