Women Speaking in Church?
Women Speaking in Church?
According to The New Testament that many believers hold dear. Women are commanded not to speak in Church as it is regarded shameful. Which is preposterous, as a basic right of humans, they should be able to communicate as pleased unless the area demands silence. But for one gender to speak while the other must remain silent as it is regarded disgraceful and they can only voice their opinion at home? This is indeed a blaspheme.
"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 anything,
let them ask their husbands at home: for it is a shame for women to speak in
the church. If they want to inquire about something, they should ask their own
husbands at home; for it is disgraceful for a woman to speak in the
church." (1 Corinthians 14:34-35)
"Let the woman learn in silence
with all subjection. But I suffer not a woman to teach, nor to usurp authority
over the man, but to be in silence. For Adam was first formed, then Eve. And
Adam was not deceived, but the woman being deceived was in the
transgression." (1 Timothy 2:11-14)
One must
wonder if Joyce Meyer, Eleanor Clitheroe and all the women who sing in churches have
ever come across these verses? Priests & Deacons are experts at
concealing certain verses in The Biblical Scripture in fears of a public
outrage.
Barne's Notes On The Bible declared
the following:
Let your women keep silence ... -
This rule is positive, explicit, and universal. There is no ambiguity in the expressions;
and there can be no difference of opinion, one would suppose, in regard to
their meaning. The sense evidently is that in all those things which he had
specified, the women were to keep silence; they were to take no part. He had
discoursed of speaking foreign languages, and of prophecy; and the evident
sense is, that in regard to all these they were to keep silence, or were not to
engage in them. These pertained solely to the male portion of the congregation.
These things constituted the business of the public teaching; and in this the
female part of the congregation were to be silent. "They were not to teach
the people, nor were they to interrupt those who were speaking" -
Rosenmuller. It is probable that, on pretence of being inspired, the women had
assumed the office of public teachers.
it was improper, and to be expressly
prohibited, for women to conduct the devotions of the church. It does not refer
to those only who claimed to be inspired, but to all; it does not refer merely
to acts of public preaching, but to all acts of speaking, or even asking
questions, when the church is assembled for public worship. No rule in the New
Testament is more positive than this; and however plausible may be the reasons
which may be urged for disregarding it, and for suffering women to take part in
conducting public worship, yet the authority of the apostle Paul is positive,
and his meaning cannot be mistaken; compare (1 Timothy 2:11-12.)
To be under obedience - To be
subject to their husbands; to acknowledge the superior authority of the man;
see the note at (1 Corinthians 11:3.)
As also saith the law - (Genesis
3:16,) "And thy desire shall be to thy husband, and he shall rule over
thee."
According to the MT Meyers
commentary of The New Testament:
Appendix to the regulative section
regarding the gifts of the Spirit (1 Corinthians 14:26-33): directed against
the public speaking of women. οὐ γὰρ ἐπιτρέπεται] for it is (permanently) not allowed. To take ἐπιτρέπεσθαι as mandari (Reiche) would be linguistically correct in itself, but
against the usage of the whole N. T. Furthermore, The Pulpit commentary has
said "But did not place them on an equality with men." So whatever
the priests at the Sunday school brunch have told you about emancipating women
and female rights are baseless assertions made by them in order to veil
controversial verses such as these.
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