Mary, Please obey God's Word, and do not continue to try to teach. Women are not commissioned or permitted to do so. I am sure you do not understand this. That is why faith is so important
Thanks for your faithful submission and obedience.
I understand the Fundamentalist view that women were not suppose to teach or exert authority or speak in Church. The intent is to degrade women to a second place status in society and Christianity. A lot of it has to do with Judaism and the Jewish culture. As God said to Eve, that her husband would rule over her. People that key on this are cherry picking this sort of belief to serve their own purposes. So a lot of this comes from Judaism and Jewish customs. But the Bible says this so we have to endure this topic. But as I said it is cherry picking of beliefs
In the Old Testament women were treated as property and not suitable for religious activates. Exodus 15:19 "He said to the people, “Be ready for the third day; do not go near a woman.”
But the scriptures also says....Galatians 3:28 There is neither Jew nor Gentile, neither slave nor free, nor is there male and female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus.
There are other beliefs and customs like this....
Neither Christ or the Apostles denounced slavery. So people that go with this sort of thing could say it is correct to have a slave. And I guarantee you that, that was sighted for justification for slavery until it became illegal.
The New Testament does not condemn or restrict polygamy. The Jews practiced polygamy for around a 1000 years after the Christ's ministry. The Christians practiced polygamy for a hundred years...it slowed down after that but it was actually the Gentile Christians during the Ecumenical Councils that put most of the stops on that...put could not stop it completely. It is one of the reasons that Paul stipulated that a church leader could only have one wife. And it is one of the reasons we do not have any examples of Christians rejecting Jews that had multiple wives from converting to Christianity, nor did they require them to divorce all but one of their wives before converting.
Christians in some ways continued to treat women as property. Arranged marriages for centuries after the biblical era...father's received the dowries and bride prices for daughters. The requirement for consensual marriages came probably came around a 1000 years later.
There is no biblical requirement...Old or New Testament for a wedding ceremony. It did become a custom...because the Gentiles like wedding ceremonies. But after the Protestant pledge on Fundamentalisms it is technically a violation. They got at the edge of the corral and peeked over the fence and decided they liked wedding ceremonies and drug it back over the fence. Historically it was the Protestants that first required wedding ceremonies.
As far as women in society and religion, that men and women hold equal status in society and religion, this is something that we have come to learn over that last century. Slow to learn...WOW
My beliefs...I will not stand for any disrespect for women. I welcome the feminine voice in Christianity. Fundamentalists are stuck in a corral of understanding and knowledge....it is what it is.
These are things that most Christians came to learn. This is the limitation that Fundamentalism has on some Christians....know only the Bible...a theological corral of sorts. The problem being is that the New Testament tells us of the first 65 years of Christianity ....but actually there has been 2000 years of God...the Holy Spirit teach us some very important information....morals that extend past the biblical era.
So if you are going to practice "biblical Christianity" you are going to need to include all of it.
