When I read this chapter this morning and got to the verse about women being submissive I was pretty appalled. I was already on edge with the women should adorn themselves modestly and sensibly. What is this guy talking about?
I was sitting next to Matthew and when he read the chapter he pointed to the same section and said "I can't wait to see what Kelly writes about this"! Of course his bible but it in a much nicer way then I showed him my bibleand pointed to the word submissive. He just gave me a look like are you kidding.
What I actually took away from this reading was the part about prayer. (I just ignored the rest). This week we have been immersed in prayer. We pray at every chance we get. The kids are leading prayers, Miranda led the whole group in prayer last night, and each day during devotions one of my teens leads the group in prayer. God must me pretty busy this week with all of the prayers we have been sending.
Matthew is busy driving his residents home but hopefully he will get a chance to blog. He had a theory on Paul's reason for his thoughts about women. He was saying something about Paul trying to raise Timothy up and give him confidence. Well see what he has to say on the subject.
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I thought about trying to focus on the "prayer" part .... just couldn't get over the other part to do so.
ReplyDeleteSince Matthew didn't get to post, I'll respond to your words about his thoughts...I don't care if the author was trying to do anything for Timothy. You don't build someone up by tearing someone else down.
The truth is these words are written by faithful men...but they were written by men who lived in a culture 2000 years ago. And sometimes the culture takes over the Word of God. Paul may have had a lot to say about faith, but he was still a man of his time. The problem is trying to live faithfullly while allowing for the places where he got confused between the Will of God and the culture he lived in.
I'm sure if we tried to write an epistle now, the readers in 4010 would find some places where our culture overran the Word.