{"id":514,"date":"2008-09-26T00:23:35","date_gmt":"2008-09-26T07:23:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/strivetoenter.com\/wim\/?p=514"},"modified":"2015-10-19T20:27:19","modified_gmt":"2015-10-20T03:27:19","slug":"a-deeper-look-1tim2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/strivetoenter.com\/wim\/2008\/09\/26\/a-deeper-look-1tim2\/","title":{"rendered":"A deeper look into 1 Timothy 2:12"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

This is a response to an article called \u201cA Deeper Look into: 1 Timothy 2:12<\/strong><\/a>\u201d by an author posting by the email address of carmradio@ymail.com on September 23, 2008.\u00a0 I will leave his name off this post.<\/p>\n

There are so many fallacies in the article that I hardly know where to start.\u00a0 However, let me start with the area that caused so many problems a year ago and I will give here what I should have said in the debate.\u00a0 The section I will be addressing is called:<\/p>\n

What the Term \u201cQuiet\/Silent\u201d Means<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

**See comments at the end**\u00a0 The author of this particular piece receives much of his information from an individual and ministry that he is very supportive of.\u00a0 His mentor in a debate a year ago made it clear that silence in 1 Timothy 2:12 does not mean complete silence, but rather quietness.\u00a0 He stated in that debate that if Paul was stopping a false deceived teacher from teaching her error to her husband (as I have shown from the context of 1 Timothy 2:11-15 and as he was trying<\/span> to refute), then Paul used the wrong word and it should have been the Greek word meaning complete silence, otherwise, as this person said in our debate, it would mean that Paul is saying that this deceived woman can teach her error to her husband \u201cjust a little bit<\/span>\u201c.\u00a0 Hear the short audio clip here where this mentor denies that the word from 1 Timothy 2:12 means silence. Click here:\u00a0 Denial that 1 Timothy 2:12 means silence<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

This clip was taken from our audio debate a year ago.\u00a0\u00a0 For the reasons why I am refuting a particular person\u2019s theology but not using their name, please refer to this statement<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n

Well, let\u2019s just take the reasoning and apply it to his own interpretation to see if doing something \u201cjust a little bit\u201d will work for him.\u00a0 This \u201cauthor\u201d** writes:<\/p>\n

This term \u201csilence\u201d<\/strong> is again used in 1 Timothy 2:12, but we can see Paul is using it in the opposite manner as opposed to 1 Tim 2:2. 1 Timothy 2:12 says, \u201cI do not permit a woman to teach or to have authority over men, but to be silent.\u201d It says not to have authority over men, but to be silent. In other words, quietness\/silence here means the opposite of having authority over man.<\/strong> So it reads, do not exercise authority over men, but instead be silent.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Here he is saying that quietness means the opposite of having authority.\u00a0 But how can this be since his mentor very carefully made the observation that Paul isn\u2019t saying complete silence but Paul said only quietness when he had his debate with me?\u00a0 If I could, I would ask his mentor, so is Paul saying that women are allowed to have authority over men \u201cjust a little bit\u201d?<\/strong> If his reasoning that \u201cquietness\u201d would mean that a woman can teach her heresy to her husband \u201cjust a little bit\u201d, than by his own words and his own reasoning \u201cquietness\u201d must also mean that women can take authority over men \u201cjust a little bit\u201d in the exact same way.\u00a0 Now it is up to him to explain why Paul did not use the word for complete silence, but instead he used the Greek word meaning quietness.\u00a0 So women can teach with authority over men \u201cjust a little bit\u201d?<\/p>\n

In the quote from the article, this author now wants quietness to be opposite<\/strong> to authority.\u00a0 This is where he runs into all kinds of problems.\u00a0 First of all the \u201cnormal\u201d word for authority is not in this passage.\u00a0 Whatever \u201cauthenteo\u201d means in 1 Timothy 2:12, we know for certain that Paul never authorized men to \u201cauthenteo\u201d anyone whether man, woman, or child and it is not a \u201cnormal\u201d word in any sense of the imagination.\u00a0 Secondly \u201cquietness\u201d is not opposite of authority even if the \u201cnormal\u201d word for authority had been used.\u00a0 Complete silence would be an opposite to teaching but quietness would not, nor is it clear how \u201cquietness\u201d could be opposite to authority.\u00a0 Again I ask this author, is Paul giving women the liberty to have authority over men \u201cjust a little bit\u201d?<\/p>\n

The next thing that we note is that there are two things forbidden in the passage not one.\u00a0 Is he claiming that \u201cquietness\u201d is also opposite to teaching?\u00a0 If so, then the author\u2019s mentor has contradicted himself, because he allows women to teach men the bible as long as they do not teach with authority.\u00a0 So women can teach \u201cjust a little bit\u201d as long as they do not teach with authority, according to this author,\u00a0 but then using his own logic, women can have authority over men \u201cjust a little bit\u201d.\u00a0 His reasoning falls to the ground \u201cjust a little bit\u201d \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

**Apparently this blog is written by a young man by the name of Jeremy who doesn\u2019t know why his comments are coming up with the email address belonging to another apologist and with the other apologist\u2019s name.\u00a0 Google is sending the alerts out as the \u201cunnamed\u201d mentor as the author.\u00a0 While the author certainly should be refuted, his mentor also needs to be corrected.\u00a0 In fact these things should have been posed to this unnamed mentor a long time ago.\u00a0 I will accept Jeremy\u2019s explanation that his post was his own writing as a compliation of other authors original writings including the unnamed person that I refer to.\u00a0 In future, I will quote Jeremy as the author on any new posts that I reference and hopefully he can find a way to have his own email address and his own name listed in his blog so Google can correctly identify Jeremy as the author \ud83d\ude42\u00a0 **<\/p>\n<\/body>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This is a response to an article called \u201cA Deeper Look into: 1 Timothy 2:12\u201d by an author posting by the email address of carmradio@ymail.com on September 23, 2008.\u00a0 I will leave his name off this post. There are so many fallacies in the article that I hardly know where to start.\u00a0 However, let me start with the area that caused so many problems a year ago and I will give here what I should have said in the debate.\u00a0…<\/p>\n

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