can anyone tell me the real meaning of 1 timothy 2:15? is it talking about man's responsibility(in case of premarital sex)? premarital sex(sin)....then man takes responsibility and marry woman....and she becomes pregnant?(no longer sin????)
2007-07-23 01:41:51 · 4 answers · asked by martha 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
1 Timothy 2:15 Yet she will be saved through childbearing--if they continue in faith and love and holiness, with self-control.
Paul is describing the God ordained role for women, that of bearing children. He is not saying that childbearing is a means to salvation. Nor is he saying that all women have to get married and have children.
1 Corinthians 7:2 But because of the temptation to sexual immorality, each man should have his own wife and each woman her own husband...6 Now as a concession, not a command, I say this. 7 I wish that all were as I myself am (unmarried). But each has his own gift from God, one of one kind and one of another.
When Paul wrote this, just as it is today, many women who loved the Lord wanted to take an active role in teaching others and some felt that they were qualified to lead a local church. Prior to this verse Paul reminds them of what happened when the order established by God was reversed.
1 Timothy 2:13 For Adam was formed first, then Eve; 14 and Adam was not deceived, but the woman was deceived and became a transgressor.
Instead of it being God then man then his wife with the Serpent under their feet it became the Serpent, then the wife, then the man with God's words being cast aside.
Genesis 3:4 But the serpent said to the woman, "You will not surely die. 5 For God knows that when you eat of it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil." 6 So when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was a delight to the eyes, and that the tree was to be desired to make one wise, she took of its fruit and ate, and she also gave some to her husband who was with her, and he ate.
Paul is saying that when women fulfill their natural role of being mothers that IF they continue in faith and love and holiness, with self-control THEN they too will be saved. Women don't have to aspire to become leaders in the church to be saved.
Later in the letter Paul describes women who do not "continue in faith and love and holiness, with self-control ".
1 Timothy 5:13 Besides that, they learn to be idlers, going about from house to house, and not only idlers, but also gossips and busybodies, saying what they should not. 14 So I would have younger widows marry, bear children, manage their households, and give the adversary no occasion for slander. 15 For some have already strayed after Satan.
2007-07-23 02:04:31 · answer #1 · answered by Martin S 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
1Ti 2:14 And Adam was not deceived, but the woman being deceived was in the transgression.
1Ti 2:15 Notwithstanding she shall be saved in childbearing, if they continue in faith and charity and holiness with sobriety.
Through Adam and Eve sin came into the world. However, through Adam and Eve's descendants Christ came into the world to provide atonement for that sin.
2007-07-23 08:56:41 · answer #2 · answered by Machaira 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Jesus Christ would be born by a woman sounds funny but it is that simple A women would give birth to the savor of the world so women and men could be saved
2007-07-23 09:00:18 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
This is one of those mystery verses that I don't like to touch.
I don't have my footnotes on me here, so I hope that someone else will back me up on this with a good answer. I've given this a star so that my contacts will see it too.
Just note this:
Childbearing does NOT save a woman......only Christ saves
2007-07-23 08:46:16 · answer #4 · answered by primoa1970 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋