This blog is for dialogue on the issue of women in ministry and the freedom for women to teach the bible in a public setting. It is also for questions and answers on our DVD entitled “Women in Ministry: Silenced or Set Free?” This 4 DVD set answers the hard passages of scripture that seem to restrict women’s ministry.
Posted in 1 Timothy issues, Debates, Egalitarian vs complementarian, Opposing viewpoints on May 11th, 2008
In my continuing review of CARM and Matt Slick’s articles on women in ministry, this post is about Matt’s article titled “Only one verse prohibits women to teach men, so it doesn’t apply to the whole church”
Matt writes:
First of all, if it is true that the Bible teaches women shouldn’t teach men, even if it [...]
Posted in 1 Timothy issues, Debates, Egalitarian vs complementarian, Opposing viewpoints on May 9th, 2008
This is a continuation of my evaluation of Matt Slick’s articles on women in ministry. Matt has been working for weeks to try to refute my interpretations. I welcome a challenge and I believe that truth will stand up to the test while error will not stand up to the challenge. Matt on the other [...]
Posted in 1 Timothy issues, Debates, Egalitarian vs complementarian, Opposing viewpoints on May 7th, 2008
This is part 2 of answering the complementarian objections of Matt Slick on 1 Timothy 2:11-15. See part one here. My article laying out the original argument showing that 1 Timothy 2:12 is a specific woman that Paul forbids from teaching is here.
In Matt’s article on CARM 1 Timothy 2:11-15 here he is [...]
Posted in 1 Timothy issues, Egalitarian vs complementarian, Opposing viewpoints on May 6th, 2008
My article laying out the original argument showing that 1 Timothy 2:12 is a specific woman that Paul forbids from teaching is here.
Matt Slick has put up several articles attempting to refute my reasoning and today I would like to answer Matt’s “refutation”. This article will be an answer to Matt’s article at http://www.carm.org/womeninministry/1Tim2_9-15specific.htm
In [...]
Posted in 1 Timothy issues, Debates, Egalitarian vs complementarian, Opposing viewpoints, Radio on Feb 28th, 2008
Breaking news first!!! The radio station that sells air time to Matt Slick’s Faith and Reason radio show has confirmed the dates and times of the public airing of my 4 DVD series “Women in Ministry Silenced or Set Free?” This is free air time because of the misrepresentation of my view by [...]
Posted in 1 Timothy issues, Debates, Egalitarian vs complementarian, Opposing viewpoints, Video, Women Pastors on Jan 26th, 2008
Below is what I posted on Matt Slick’s discussion board. I will add the day and time of the airing of “Women in Ministry Silenced or Set Free?” when the radio station gives me the finalized details.
Scripture warns us not to make a hasty judgment on a matter. When two sides have conflicting interpretations, [...]
Posted in 1 Timothy issues, Debates, Women Pastors, Women serving in the church on Sep 30th, 2007
Proverbs 18:17 (ESV) The one who states his case first seems right, until the other comes and examines him.
Scripture warns us not to make a hasty judgment on a matter. When two sides have conflicting interpretations, those who wish to be Bereans should be willing to carefully consider all of the facts from [...]
Posted in 1 Timothy issues, Video on Mar 30th, 2007
I have posted a third preview of my “Women in Ministry Silenced or Set Free?” DVD on YouTube. You can view the preview of 1 Corinthians 14 below. Click below on the picture to watch the preview of part 5 found on the fourth DVD.
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To watch an excerpt from the [...]
Posted in 1 Timothy issues, Video on Mar 30th, 2007
I have posted a second preview of my “Women in Ministry Silenced or Set Free?” DVD on YouTube. You can view the preview of 1 Timothy 2:11-15 below. Click on the picture to watch the preview of part 4 on the third DVD.
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Posted in 1 Timothy 3, 1 Timothy issues, Opposing viewpoints, Women Pastors on Jan 28th, 2007
I was listening to the January 26, 2007 radio program online by Matt Slick of carm.org. Matt answered a caller’s question regarding women leading in the church by appealing to Titus 1:6 and 1 Timothy 3:2 where it says that a Pastor/Elder/Overseer must be “the husband of one wife”. Matt said it was [...]
Posted in 1 Timothy issues, Contradictions on Jan 19th, 2007
I should call this post Part Four of “Does God have one unique law?” but instead I chose to make it a “unique” post of its own. Let me ask you, do you believe that there are any laws of God that Satan agrees with? Apparently he is in full agreement with the [...]
Posted in 1 Timothy issues on Jan 15th, 2007
In part one, we discussed the fact that the Bible does not contradict itself so when a complementarian has a “proof text” that is used to prove that women are not allowed to teach the Bible to men, they must also deal with the apparent contradictions of this view. Here are some of the [...]
Posted in 1 Timothy issues, Egalitarian vs complementarian, Opposing viewpoints on Dec 29th, 2006
One of the things that bugs me when Christians have discussions about the women’s issue is the point when they are at loggerheads regarding “proof texts”. One person says they have their “proof text” scripture and so they are not willing to listen to what the other person has to say. The other [...]
Posted in 1 Timothy issues, In the beginning - Genesis, Old Testament scriptures on Dec 27th, 2006
While we have seen from part one that Adam’s sin was said to have been a deliberate transgression of the covenant and as a result it was a treacherous act against God (Hosea 6:7) where does that leave the seriousness of Eve’s sin?
God has made a dividing line between those sins which come from a [...]
Posted in 1 Timothy issues, In the beginning - Genesis on Dec 11th, 2006
1 Timothy 2:13, 14 show that the first creation of Adam is connected to the fact that Adam was not deceived. Why was Adam not deceived? If the Hebrew text shows that God created the animals in two creative acts - one before Adam was created and one after Adam was created (but before Eve [...]
Posted in 1 Timothy issues on Dec 9th, 2006
In this part three of “Does God have one unique law?” we will be discussing the last set of circumstances that set apart the “law” that complementarians say God made that forbids godly Christian women from teaching correct biblical doctrine to men. It is our desire to point out that all of these unique [...]
Posted in 1 Timothy issues on Dec 7th, 2006
To read part one of Does God have one unique law, click here.
Complementarians have stated that God has a law that forbids godly Christian women from teaching correct biblical doctrine to men. This law, they say, is revealed in 1 Timothy 2:12. Since we saw in part one that this law is foreign [...]
Posted in 1 Timothy issues, Video on Dec 2nd, 2006
I was challenged to present my view of 1 Timothy 2:11-15 on another blog and I thought it would be good to summarize my view on my own blog. Here is the teaching from “Women in Ministry Silenced or Set Free?” our DVD series on the hard passages of scripture on the women’s issue, [...]
Posted in 1 Timothy issues, Old Testament scriptures on Nov 29th, 2006
If complementarians are right in their interpretation of 1 Timothy 2:12, then God must have one completely unique law. This “law” forbidding women from teaching the bible to men is not like any other law in the bible.
All of God’s laws have several things in common. Every law is able to be traced back to [...]
Posted in 1 Timothy issues, Opposing viewpoints on Oct 27th, 2006
My heart goes out to Pastors who are so engrained in tradition that they can easily justify sending godly women to hell. This past weekend I spoke with a Pastor from a denomination that does not believe that women are allowed to teach the bible to men. I asked him several questions regarding [...]
Posted in 1 Timothy issues, Audio, Opposing viewpoints on Oct 26th, 2006
On October 20, 2006 I gave a talk on the women’s issue at a convention of ex-Jehovah’s Witnesses. The talk was roughly based on questions that I had received from a Pastor who had watched my DVD “Women in Ministry Silenced or Set Free?” He had asked me some questions that were not [...]
Posted in 1 Timothy issues on Jul 2nd, 2006
Q: Isn’t there a law in 1 Timothy 2:11-15 that forbids women from teaching the Bible to men? Why are you disregarding this law?
A: There are many who take 1 Timothy 2:11-15 as a law that forbids women from teaching the bible to men and therefore forbids them from ministering in the [...]
Posted in 1 Timothy issues on Apr 6th, 2006
Q: In WIM you say that 1 Timothy 1:3 “charge some that they teach no other doctrine” means people male or female. However isn’t the technical grammar of “some” as singular masculine?
A: This is an excellent question and I am glad that you asked this. Although 1 Timothy 1:3 has a generic meaning of male [...]
Posted in 1 Timothy issues on Mar 19th, 2006
Q: Doesn’t Paul’s command in 1 Timothy 2:12 for women not to teach men show that to disobey this command is a sin?
A: That’s a great question. In 1 Timothy 2:12 we need to determine what the command is and who the command is to. To determine these two things, we refer you back [...]
Posted in 1 Timothy issues on Mar 13th, 2006
Q: You say that “a woman” in 1 Timothy 2:11 & 12 is the same terminology as Paul calling “a man” living in sin in 1 Corinthians 5. Wouldn’t you have to admit that the normal grammatical reading in 1 Corinthians 5 which says that Paul is talking about a particular man, not “all [...]
Women In Ministry
This blog is for dialogue on the issue of women in ministry and the freedom for women to teach the bible in a public setting. It is also for questions and answers on our DVD entitled “Women in Ministry: Silenced or Set Free?” This 4 DVD set answers the hard passages of scripture that seem to restrict women’s ministry.
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