Were there women that taught in the early Christian congregations?

Question

What about 1 Timothy2:12? It says that women are not permitted to teach or have authority over a man? Was this to mean women are not ever permitted to teach in church?

Answer 1

Priscilla appears to have spoken as a preacher. She and her husband taught an early Christian evangelist. The deacon Philip had 7 daughters who served as prophetess(es) or proclaimers. The letters of Paul include a number of women in leadership roles when he lists his supporters at the end of the books.
The 1 Tim. passage is strictly adhered to in some churches, skirted around in others by calling women "ministers, and ignored in others. It is highly tied to the cultural situation of that time.
As a point of interest perhaps, as a pastor, I have found that women will very often follow their husband to church, but seldom the other way around.

Answer 2

i'm a christian female. i do no longer think of gender has a touching on no count number if or no longer somebody is named through God to communicate interior the church. I surely have heard useful pastors of the two genders. God does no longer have created ladies with brains and the skill to realize the masses if he did no longer desire them to minister. a number of what's written interior the Bible reflects the social customs of the time, and isn't any longer meant to be taken as actually what God needs. The memories have been handed from technology to technology, each and every so often for hundreds of years in the previous they have been written into historic Greek, then translated each and every so often quite a few situations. relating to the words in Corinthians being taken out of context, there are continuously those which will attempt to curve God's words to help their ideals. I continuously pray that God will make me understand what he needs me to glean from each and each financial ruin that I examine and that i may be the guy he needs me to be.

Answer 3

Male and female, all Christians in the first century taught in connection with the public ministry, such as from house to house.

(Matthew 28:19) Go therefore and make disciples of people of all the nations

(Acts 20:20) I did not hold back from telling you any of the things that were profitable nor from teaching you publicly and from house to house


Devout Christians recognize that their cultural sensibilities are less important than God's will and explicit direction on the matter. The rare occasions when a Christian woman would teach congregationally, she would wear a head covering.

(1 Corinthians 11:4,5) Every man that [publicly] prays or prophesies [or "teaches"] having something on his head shames his head; 5 but every woman that [publicly] prays or prophesies [or "teaches"] with her head uncovered shames her head, for it is one and the same as if she were a woman with a shaved head.


Jehovah's Witnesses always handle this matter with dignity and honor. Really, the larger principle is one of subjection to Jehovah God. A Christian wife is subject to her husband ("believer" or not), except where secular and bible law conflict. The bible authorizes only males to serve as congregation elders and ministerial servants ("deacons"). Even the angels and human Christians recognize their subjection to Christ. In turn, Christ recognizes his subjection to Jehovah God.
http://watchtower.org/e/ti/index.htm?article=article_06.htm

(1 Corinthians 11:10) That is why the woman ought to have a sign of authority upon her head because of the angels.

(Ephesians 5:21-23) Be in subjection to one another in fear of Christ. 22 Let wives be in subjection to their husbands as to the Lord, 23 because a husband is head of his wife as the Christ also is head of the congregation

(1 Corinthians 11:3) the head of every man is the Christ; in turn the head of a woman is the man; in turn the head of the Christ is God


As was mentioned, the Scriptures are relatively clear regarding the importance of subjection, and how head-coverings can help demonstrate a godly view of subjection. Christians do not believe that the bible indicates any superiority of one gender over the other, but simply an orderliness and a pattern which they must respect. Jehovah's Witnesses note that a substantial number of women must be among the humans resurrected to heavenly life to rule beside Jesus as kings and priests forever.
http://watchtower.org/e/20001001/article_02.htm

Especially in so-called "egalitarian" societies, even devout Christians such as Jehovah's Witnesses are sometimes not perfectly diligent to the bible's direction on head-coverings. Thanks for the reminders!

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Answer 4

No, liberals have only recently been able to give you any rights. Many (christians) would still prefer that you did not.
Hell, free thinkers rebelling against the "word of god" over the years and dragging the fundies into modernization is the only reason you're not still property that's bought and sold from your father to whatever husband your father struck a good deal with.

Answer 5

Women had roles, just not in teaching, no. Timothy, actually was influenced in a HUGE way by the women in is life, and others wrote of it, to remind him, to encourage him, in the wisdom he gained from them. Just like now, and in our own lives, women have a LOT of influence, in their little corners of the world.
A more current example, in reading the biography of Billy Graham, which is huge, we really liked him, but we LOVED his wife so much more, after we learned a bit about her, etc. Ruth, is awesome, and and example of the power behind a powerful man, or influential man. "behind every great man, ....", you know the rest. :)

Answer 6

Genesis 3:16, there punishment before God. God put man over Woman, So the heavenly father says.

Answer 7

I commend unto you Phebe our sister, which is a servant of the church which is at Cenchrea:

The Romans 16:1
King James Version

only servants not teachers..........

Answer 8

Probably not, women were not educated back then and did not teach anything.

Answer 9

I don't know but there were female prophetesses.

Answer 10

Yes.

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 ate the fruit.

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 a few places of the bible, Paul spoke for himself and not for God (a couple of examples are found in 1 Corinthians 11:6 and 1 Timothy 2:12). 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.

Ephesians 5:22 instructs wives to submit to their husbands, however the verse before tells us 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 one another. Neither is superior.

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

If the husband isn't loving and righteous, then the wife should not submit to him because as Christians, we are to obey God 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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