is it biblical for women to be pastors?

Answer 1

From what I can find or have ever read the answer would be no, women are given no real place in the teaching of religion,and if you look you will find bible verses that actually forbid it. I believe the phrasing used was something along the lines of women being silent in Church.

Answer 2

Here are some relevant Biblical texts:

"A woman must quietly receive instruction with entire submissiveness. But I do not allow a woman to teach or exercise authority over a man, but to remain quiet." - 1 Timothy 2:11-12

"The women are to keep silent in the churches; for they are not permitted to speak, but are to subject themselves, just as the Law also says. If they desire to learn anything, let them ask their own husbands at home; for it is improper for a woman to speak in church." - 1 Corinthians 14:34-35

"But I want you to understand that Christ is the head of every man, and the man is the head of a woman, and God is the head of Christ." - 1 Corinthians 11:3

"An overseer, then, must be above reproach, the husband of one wife, temperate, prudent, respectable, hospitable, able to teach,"
- 1 Timothy 3:2


That is the Biblical view. It certainly is not the politically correct view nor the view of liberal "churches" but it is the word of God.

Answer 3

Actually, I don't think so. 1 Timothy says something about that because no woman is to rebuke a man. But I'm not sure. Of coarse there are many talented women out there who know the word and can relate it to people really well. However, I think that they are to lead women and not men. God, created us and knows how we are wired. Guys simple. Gals complex. I think for many it puts a short on our blue wire or something

Answer 4

I would say no, because Christ's most perfect follower was not a pastor/leader of the Church and that was His own mother.

If anyone should have been a leader of the church it should have been the person who raised Christ Himself, but within the church men and women have different roles and talents. Just look at Mary and how she saw that the wedding feast was out of wine and thus urged Christ to perform His first miracle. She ministered to the apostles and Christs followers, so that they can do their works. =^)

Answer 5

I truthfully have attended a church have been there grew to become right into a woman pastor, yet i did not return. The scripture is amazingly clean: "enable your women folk shop silence in the church homes: for this is not authorized unto them to talk; yet they are commanded to be decrease than obedience, as additionally saith the regulation. And in the event that they are going to learn any situation, enable them to ask their husbands at homestead: for that's a shame for women folk to talk in the church" (a million Corinthians 14:34-35). "enable the female learn in silence with all subjection. yet I go through not a woman to coach, nor to usurp authority over the guy, yet to be in silence. For Adam grew to become into first formed, then Eve. And Adam grew to become into not deceived, however the female being deceived grew to become into in the transgression" (a million Timothy 2:11-14). fifty six minutes in the past

Answer 6

No women werent usually leaders but there are many times women played very important roles in the bible, the bible also says women are not less then men and both are needed.


WOW kinda like today !!

Answer 7

Never!they can take part in preaching and teaching people they come across but not pastors.Men are to take the lead as simply put in the bible that the head of a woman is a man and the head of a man is Christ who is also head of the congregation, and the head of Christ is God Jehovah.This chain of command is not complicated to those who are honest hearted.

Answer 8

No, the bible says something like 'a woman shall not instruct a man; she shall be silent'. Nice, huh? Glad I didn't buy into that crap, or I wouldn't have a job.

Answer 9

Depends which part of it you read. Paul didn't have much use for women, except to take their money to fund his ministry.

But Jesus clearly did.

Which one are you going to follow?

Answer 10

In a few places of the Bible, we find that the Apostle Paul said some things that were not inspired by God (see 1 Corinthians 11:3-10 and 1 Timothy 2:12-15). Although Paul was a Christian who was mightily used by God, we have to keep in mind that he was yet an imperfect human (as we all are) and we must be able to discern man’s flawed views from God’s word.

Adam was created before Eve but that doesn’t mean he was superior to Eve. Also, Adam was just as deceived as Eve and that’s why he sinned. Saying that Adam was not deceived, that Adam did not sin and that women would be saved by childbearing (see 1 Timothy 2:11-15) is telling obvious lies. Paul implied that because Adam was created first it meant he was superior to Eve and used this ridiculous theory to support his forbidding of women from teaching men. No one has any right to forbid an anointed woman of God from doing what she has been called by God to do.

In Christ, men and women are equal (Galatians 3:28). Both female and male believers in Christ are kings and priests unto God (Revelation 1:6) and God calls Christian women and men to ALL offices of ministry within the Church.

In 1 Timothy 2:12, Paul said that he (not God) forbade women to teach men. In the Bible we see that God called many women to be leaders and teachers of men, women and children: prophets (Miriam, Deborah, Huldah, Isaiah’s wife, Philipp’s four daughters), military leader and judge (Deborah), disciples (Mary, Martha, Joanna, Mary Magdalene, Susanna, and “many more”), deacon (Priscilla), and church leader (Lydia).

Furthermore, in Acts 2:17-18 it says:

And it shall come to pass in the last days, saith God, I will pour out of my Spirit upon all flesh: and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, and your young men shall see visions, and your old men shall dream dreams: And on my servants and on my handmaidens I will pour out in those days of my Spirit; and they shall prophesy:

In the Church, God calls many Christian women to be apostles, prophets, evangelists, pastors (or “shepherds”) and teachers of men, women and children.

In Ephesians 5:22, Paul instructs wives to submit to their husbands, however in the verse before he said that ALL Christians (both male and female) should equally submit themselves to one another:

Ephesians 5:21
Submitting yourselves one to another in the fear of God.

Both husband and wife must respectfully submit to each other. Neither is superior nor the head of the other.

In Ephesians 5:25, Paul instructs husbands to love their wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it.

It is common sense that if the husband isn’t loving and righteous, the wife should not submit to him because as Christians, we are to obey God and not men.

On 1 Corinthians 14:34-35, it is understood that men should also stay silent while the preacher whether female or male is preaching, and if they missed or didn’t understand something, they should wait until later to ask their wives or a fellow brother or sister in Christ or do their own study. The main lesson is to not interrupt the service.

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