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Re: Testimony of Discipling [message #10463 is a reply to message #10438]

Mon, 02 December 2013 15:20

wishing34
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Registered: March 2009

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Marylin,

you said:

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However as we read more of God`s word on the topic we see how the early believers operated in their meetings, in their houses. Paul certainly does not forbid women to speak but actually encourages them to speak out in full participation, but in mutual subjection to one another.

`As those who have been chosen of God......let the word of Christ richly dwell within you, with all wisdom teaching & admonishing one another....`(Col. 3: 12 & 16)

Col 3:16 does not indicate that women would be teaching anything beyond what is included in Titus 2:4-5
This verse cannot be used to validate women teachers to the church.

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`if...all speak in tongues,....if all prophesy,....when you assemble each one has a Psalm, has a teaching, has a revelation, has a tongue, has an interpretation.....` (1 Cor. 14: 23 - 26)
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I assume you mean that each person ( specifically including females ) had a teaching.
This is I Cor 14:26
8 verses later in I Cor 14:34-35 Paul will call for the women to be silent and to ask/learn at home -
just the opposite of your proposed interpretation.

If Paul meant I Cor 14:26 to tell us that women are to give teachings in the assembly then he
contradicts himself within 8 verses.

We must realize that no one qualifies every word as they speak/write. In I Cor 14:26 Paul is talking about
disorderly (too much) participation in the meetings, so he does not stop and qualify his phrase
"each has a teaching" to exclude females since he will deal with that topic 8 verses later.

To pull the "each has a teaching" phrase out of I Cor 14:26 in order to make a doctrine allowing women teachers
is to violate the principle "Use Scripture to interpret Scripture."

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actually encourages them to speak out in full participation

This is directly, directly opposite to I Cor 14:34-35

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Jman

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At the time of this post . . .

FA, the satellites, the spinoffs,and the FA diaspora have been having church
without apostles for 41 years and 336 days.
Initial start date 1/1/72

Recommended: No faith stands that strongly impact our (our children's) lives until we figure out
why the signs and wonders are missing. Something is wrong.

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