"Let your women keep silence in the churches: for it is not permitted unto them to speak; but they are commanded to be under obedience, as also saith the law. And if they will learn any thing, let them ask their husbands at home: for it is a shame for women to speak in the church. What? came the word of God out from you? or came it unto you only? If any man think himself to be a prophet, or spiritual, let him acknowledge that the things that I write unto you are the commandments of the Lord. But if any man be ignorant, let him be ignorant. Wherefore, brethren, covet to prophesy, and forbid not to speak with tongues." Let all things be done decently and in order.
I apologize for reverting back for today's lesson, but I overlooked a very important point that appears in the latter part of Corinthians 14.
In this quote, Paul said, "let your women be silent in the churches: for it is not permitted unto them to speak; but they are commanded to be under obedience, as also saith the law. And if they will learn any thing, let them ask their husbands at home: for it is a shame for women to speak in the church."
There are many today, especially women, who take issue with this text in that it seems to block them out of any interaction within the Church.
I will take no stand on this issue since the text very clearly speaks for itself. I will however, draw your attention to Paul having said, "but they are commanded to be under obedience, AS ALSO SAITH THE LAW". This could mean that Paul's rule is taken from a tradition under the Law of Moses and should not be carried over to the modern churches since the meeting places of Christians Churches are no longer controlled by Jews and bound to the rules of Judaism.
It seems too that what is said in Galatians 3:26-29 contradicts what Paul said herein; "For ye are all the children of God by faith in Christ Jesus. For as many of you as have been baptized into Christ have put on Christ. There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither bond nor free, there is NEITHER MALE NOR FEMALE: for ye are all one in Christ Jesus. And if ye be Christ's, then are ye Abraham's seed, and heirs according to the promise."
The Galatians text clearly states that once a woman becomes a child of God she is to be seen as an equal in the Church.~
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