Christian question?!?

Question

I just learned this today and the Bible is talking about women not being able to speak in the church and how women cant do certain things.. plz explain!

Answer 1

Reading though the answers, it is because Paul did not want his sermon disrupted?

Come again. If that is so, why limit it to the women? Why not just say "Don't interrupt in Church".

Face it, the bible is a book about men, written by men who wanted to keep men in the dominant position in the church. The bible is just a reflection of the morals of society at that time.

Slavery is O.K. in the O.T., misogyny is O.K. in the O.T. and the N.T. because that is how those societies were based.

Today we think differently. The church, as usual, is about 100 years behind.

Answer 2

There are a few words for "slience" in the Bible. One word just relates to being quiet and not talking a lot. The churches that Paul was talking to had issues with certain women taking authority and trying to boss people around. Paul was trying to say that this was not the way things should be. It was kind of like saying that the people in the church that are causing a ruckus, trying to exert their authority over everyone, running over everyone - should stop. It just so happened to be certain women in the congregations Paul was talking to.

Answer 3

Because of the nature of Corinthians (Greek) society, everyone was looking for something "new" to tickle their ears. (Athenian Philosophy was right down the road.)
The women were no exception, but in Corinth, when Paul was teaching, the questions from the ladies became disruptive and distracting. Paul taught the Corinthian church that a woman should ask her husband the questions, so that the husband could take his rightful position in the home, and teach his wife, and family. The idea was loosely based upon the teachings that a woman should not usurp the authority of men.
In Timothy, women are encouraged to teach one another, especially, the older woman in the church teaching the younger ones.

Your original question though? The purpose of that teaching was to restore order in the congregation.

Answer 4

I think you got many good answeres, but let me add this, you see I asked myself the same question and eventually I was revealed that God knows men and women. Well women have a tendency to speak a lot more than men and to gossip also a lot more. that would be distracting in church. That's part of why women shouldn't speak (but try to make that happen LOL) I am a christian woman, and it makes sense. Just like God want's men to be the head of the house, because men as you know, tend to be a bit childish and many don't take responsabilities... So God put them there to make men of themselves....
Short version!

Answer 5

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In Paul day it was a day of setting the church in order
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it was total confusion, no one could hear anything
so he said let the men speak and the women ask at home to stop the confusion'
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Answer 6

It falls under the fact that men have spiritual authority.

Women of today take this as an affront, but it is not. In that men have the authority, they also have a lot more of the responsibility. This means that a woman is safe within her husband's authoritative rights. He has a responsibility to see that she and the children adhere to the teachings of Christ and of the Bible. He leads them.

Women have their own responsibilities..they are to see that their husbands can do their job as the spiritual head of the household. Their husbands represent Christ in the household.

Also, men are told to love their wives as Christ loved the Church. What did Christ do for the Church? He died for her. So, this command tells us that husbands, truly following Christ, will respect and love their wives.

Men are to imitate Christ in exercising their authority. Christ washed the feet of his disciples...he was humble and loving.

Be careful, do not take your 2007, women's rights thinking when understanding this passage. The authority given men is a holy authority. Not an overbearing one.

Answer 7

It's just referring to women leading in the church, in the Bible it talks about a women not teaching in public services, in doesn't mean they cant teach at home or study with their husband, just means the men are to lead the church.

Answer 8

that was in reference to the way they had church then the men on one side and the women on the other, the women would yell their question to their husbands during service and it was a disruption, they were simply being told if you have a question wait till you get home or after the service

it still apples in the point if you have a question about the service ask it after it is over

Answer 9

Ah, yes. You are reading the notorious passage from 1 Timothy Chapter 2, no? Here is my humble take:

Paul wrote this letter at a specific time to a specific person (Timothy) in a specific place (Ephesus). At this time, women were undereducated as a result of the pre-existing pagan and Jewish customs. Some under-educated women who dressed flashily to show off their money (and bodies?) were standing up in church and preaching about things about which they were only half-educated. Paul is telling Timothy (after a request for help, we may infer from the text) what he does in his churches about this. I have read that many of the women in this area of Asia Minor were carrying many of their goddess-worshiping notions into the churches. Paul was speaking about specific women in a specific place. In Philippians Ch. 4 v. 3, Paul makes reference to a couple of women who helped him spread the gospel.

Today's Western women are certainly not the uneducated women of this day. From the historical context (and after much prayer), we may infer that as long as a women is well educated in spiritual and scriptural matters and maintains a modest way of presenting herself, there should be no barrier to her preaching.

"So in Christ there is no difference between Jews and Gentiles, between slaves and free men, between men and women; you are all one in union with Christ Jesus." -Galatians 3:20 (Bible in Today's English Version)

Answer 10

I was confused about this one also, but after studying, fasting, and prayer, God revealed understanding. We have to understand that when we see this in scripture, it is Paul speaking to the church directly that was out of order.
Think of it like this; when a child is being loud and out of order during conversation, a parent would say, "shut your mouth, you are not to speak, be quiet".
The parent did not mean that the child could never again speak in the house or anything else, but the parent was setting order.
In the same way Paul was setting order in the church as the woman was speaking and acting out of the will of God in the church and not submissive to the Holy Spirit and to the governer of the church, man. Not saying that man is king, but the Bible refers to many times the order of man and woman: God ---> Man ----> Woman

Its like this... when a man of God is present that is under the will of God and submissive to the Holy Spirit and governing the ministry, a woman can not step up and speak over him. Now if that same man is not present in the church or even present but not in the will of God, a woman has to step up and govern the church, until God sends a worthy man. We see this happening all too often today because the masses of weak men in the kingdom. God has had to use woman to play the leading and governing role that He ordered the men to fill to keep the kingdom rolling.

But understand that woman can have her own ministry, preach, prophesy, heal, etc. But a woman cannot step out of order, out of the will of God, when God appoints a faithful man of God to leadership in the kingdom and he is under God's command, no matter how annointed the world thinks she is, God has appointed the men to lead and the women to support and intercede (whether in ministry, preaching, prayer, healing, etc) but not over a man of God in the realm. Its out of order that God placed.

So women do not be discouraged and keep your ministries going and keep working for the lord, but pray for strong men of God that will take lead so order can be set in the kingdom. And when God answers those prayers and starts sending those men, step down to submittance and obey the lord... do not stop your ministry, but to not speak or do over the man of God.

Did that clarify anything at all (Selah)

Blessings,
Todd