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Originally Posted by ZNPaaneah
You are the one who is ignoring God's word. You have not explained how your interpretation does not contradict Paul's word that in the church "there is no male or female", nor have you explained the distinction between "charging the women to teach". He didn't say "they can't teach men, but it would be OK if they teach women". He charged them to teach. Even if they don't want to, they must. You ignore his word that in the meeting when women pray or prophesy they need to have their head covered. Prayer and prophesy can have much more authority than teaching. You haven't explained how Paul could have leading coworkers be women in a culture where that does not happen. You claim that this verse refers to women teaching men in a church meeting, yet the chapter has nothing to do with church meetings, but rather dealing with Kings and Queens that we may live in peace. You didn't explain why "all who are in Asia forsook Paul".
You are the one who ignores the Bible. Instead you support your interpretation about women teachers with Matthew Pool. He is not the Bible.
You support Witness Lee's teaching on deification with Athanasius, he is not the Bible.
In one place Christian tradition is a solid support for a practice that would otherwise be pagan. You have no Bible support, rather the Bible condemns this repeatedly from every single angle, doesn't matter to you, "stone me" was your response.
There is no Bible support for a loyalty pledge. Doesn't matter to you, instead you ask "is it sin"?
The only Bible support for MOTA are OT types of Jesus Christ. Applying them to Watchman Nee is the same as preaching "another Jesus". Doesn't matter to you. Simple matter of ignoring the Bible.
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I have to laugh at your claim that I "ignore God's Word". I think you mean "ZNPaaneah's Word". Whatever angle or spin you want to put on it, my view is straight from the bible, I gave the verse, read it, apply it like any other verse such as John 3:16, then you would be following God. Reject it, and you aren't following God.
I could post any respected website such as gotquestions that says the same:
http://www.gotquestions.org/women-pastors.html
God has ordained that only men are to serve in positions of spiritual teaching authority in the church. This is not because men are necessarily better teachers or because women are inferior or less intelligent (which is not the case). It is simply the way God designed the church to function.
CARM (Christian apologetics and research ministry):
https://carm.org/should-women-be-pastors-and-elders
God's word clearly tells us that the elder is to be the husband of one wife. A woman cannot qualify for this position by virtue of her being female. Whether anyone likes it or not is irrelevant to the fact that this is what the Bible teaches.
If you're in a church where there is a woman pastor, then ask for the biblical reason for her being in that position. of course, to do this is to go against the status quo and you will be met with resistance. Therefore, consider leaving that church. After all, if they can't get this simple truth right, how can you trust them to get other things right?
If you're the husband of a woman pastor, then hold your wife to biblical standards as revealed by Paul the apostle. it does not matter if she likes it or not. The issue is the submission to the word of God.
If you're a husband and wife pastor team, then submit to God's word and do things right. She needs to stop being called pastor. She needs to stop taking the role of the man.
Catholic and Orthodox churches still hold to it today, most Protestant churches used to hold to it until around the 1980's. It was almost universally recognized that women could not be pastors or priests, until fairly recent times. About the same time that homosexual marriage was coming to the fore. Coincidence? I think not. The Jezebel spirit is running rampant and weak Ahab's support it.