Comments on: Let her learn….or not?

By: Lin

Lin — Sat, 04 Oct 2008 17:32:13 +0000

BTW: Our SBC seminaries are allowing women to learn. That is good but it is also hypocritical in a way. They will take their money but not allow them to use their gifts in a meaningful way even outside the Body. The firing of Dr. Klouda is evident of this. And she was only teaching male students Hebrew. First they take her money and award her a PhD. Then they hire her to teach Hebrew. Then she has excellent reviews and then is fired for being a woman because the new president Paige Patterson says she is not allowed to teach male students.

By: Lin

Lin — Sat, 04 Oct 2008 17:28:04 +0000

“Our inconsistencies in this area do challenge our witness as the Church universal to the world.”

Absolutely. How would a female unbeliever who has not been filled with the Holy Spirit and therefore ‘truth’, see the difference between Christianity as taught by the masculinists and Mormonism? Or, JW?

They wouldn’t.

By: Cindy K

Cindy K — Sat, 04 Oct 2008 04:34:37 +0000

And this is all the more ironic and distressing if you consider, as I do, that it was Christianity that brought freedom to study to women to start with. I see egalitarianism as a blessing of the New Covenant. Our inconsistencies in this area do challenge our witness as the Church universal to the world.

By: Lin

Lin — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 22:47:31 +0000

“The world sees our inconsistencies and we bring dishonor and shame to Christ when we remain inconsistent.”

YOu know, I have never thought about it like that before. It is a chilling thought.

By: Cheryl Schatz

Cheryl Schatz — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 17:34:55 +0000

Rachel,

You are a testimony to the truth of God’s word!

Don,

You have properly evaluated the command to learn. MacArthur and others would agree with you in principle. They just don’t do it in practice. This is a serious concern since their actions don’t follow their assertions. We need to be consistent with what we believe. The world sees our inconsistencies and we bring dishonor and shame to Christ when we remain inconsistent.

By: Don

Don — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 13:41:30 +0000

Good point, some are violating a EXPLICIT GENERAL COMMAND to learn (albeit to a specific woman, but the principle still applies). Jesus discussed the possibility of faulty exegesis leading to breaking of the Torah (God’s instruction) and we see an example right here.

By: Rachel at Re vis.e Re form

Rachel at Re vis.e Re form — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 09:05:39 +0000

It was Bilezikian who first helped me to understand that Paul was quoting Jewish law back at the church so to teach them that the law says one thing but the Lord quite another. He helped to free me so that I am now at theological college ‘learning’ how to one day preach and teach God’s word.

Joy and blessings to you and him and the Lord above for helping to reveal to me the beautiful promises from God’s beautiful book.
love Rachel at Re vis.e Re form