What does 1 Timothy 2:15 mean?

Question

"But women will be saved through childbearing—if they continue in faith, love and holiness with propriety."

Answer 1

Based on the grammar in the original Greek language, it says she will be saved in THE childbirth. Women (as well as men) can be saved by the Messiah - whom a woman brought into the world.

Answer 2

The expectation of the day was that women were to be keepers of the home, and men were to be the providers. Let's not get hasty, R&S folks, to think that this means that God was being chauvinistic; the rest of the world at that time had the same practice.

The hard things of life are vehicles of our salvation, in that all are called to suffer and to be perfected by it, assuming of course that we retain faith in Christ. This is brought out by the second half of the verse:
"...continue in faith, love and holiness with propriety"

It is not that there is anything "magical" in having children, or that women will go to hell if they don't, rather it is an acknowledgment of the common expectation of having kids, and enduring all that meant in holiness.

Incidentally, the word there translated as "through" as in "through childbearing" is:
Èn

Which could just as easily be translated, and is elsewhere in the scriptures, as in. In other words, in the process of, or during the time in which she is bearing children, she will be saved IF she continues in faith, etc.

Hope this helps!
Tom

Answer 3

It means that women will be saved through childbearing--if they continue in faith, live, and holiness with propriety.

Answer 4

We are created in God’s image to live in a relationship with Him. This life is gift from our Maker and we realize it’s true meaning when we find God and enter into a relationship (restored through Jesus) with our heavenly Father.

God also designed several other relationships, institutions, childbearing, becoming parents etc. to be part of our lives’ journey of discovery of Him and all of these, if followed according to God’s purpose help us to find complete fulfillment and peace. Now for a man, God has said that He will need a companion to be with him and will find one such person in his wife -- there are some exceptions that few are chosen by God not to marry and have a family, but those are “rare!” However, in the case of a woman, in addition to marriage the trials of childbearing are part of her lot (as hard work to sustain his family is for her husband) and however religious or God-fearing she may be, she will continue to feel inadequate and incomplete without children. Again there are exceptions that some may be unable to bear children, though for God all things are possible!

Therefore while every man and woman will find solace, comfort and salvation in Jesus, and be able to live life to the fullest, they will also have joy in their offspring and as Paul writes Christian women’s lives are complemented through childbearing, something which both CJ and charlotte626 have explained very well.

I come from the world’s fastest growing nation (in numbers) and know back home how important women consider the part of their lives when they could be mothers. They regard it as something to blessed with – childbirth and offspring as the “greatest worldly” gift of God for them. For though we die and become dust, the love of a man and woman lives on in their children after them.

God bless,
Andrew

Answer 5

Concerning childbearing and motherhood, the apostle Paul recommended that younger widows, who may be greatly distracted if their motherly instincts are not satisfied, get married and bear children rather than spend their time gadding about as “gossipers and meddlers in other people’s affairs.” (1Ti 5:11-15) Concerning women in the Christian congregation, Paul said that they “will be kept safe through childbearing, provided they continue in faith and love and sanctification along with soundness of mind.”—1Ti 2:15.

Answer 6

The word "saved" is here translated from the Greek word "Sowtair", and is frequently translated "heal" or "made whole".

The translators should probably have translated it "fulfilled" in this passage.

Please remember that punctuation, even periods and paragraph breaks, were not in the original manuscripts. They're all put in by translators.

Answer 7

This passage (1 Timothy 2:15) points to the mediatrix, the Blessed Virgin Mary. For she bore the Incarnate God and through that event salvation was ushered into the world through that Child. They will be saved (as a result of) [Mary's] childbearing.

Answer 8

That Word "Saved"
can mean Different Things.

1.Saved--you got Born-Again, your on your Way to Heaven
2.Saved--you got Well from a Sickness or Disease
3.Saved--you were Protected from Injury and Death in an Accident
4.You had the Money to Pay your Bills
5.so on, and so on

Salvation comes in Two Parts:
1. your Saved from Hell
2. your Saved from the "Hell" on this Earth at this Time.

I Believe your Question means that if She Walks in Faith, it won't hurt much!!
Saved from the Pain of ChildBearth.

Answer 9

The apostle Paul recommended that younger widows, who may be greatly distracted if their motherly instincts are not satisfied, get married and bear children rather than spend their time being idle.

Answer 10

The word used for "saved" in the Greek speaks of personal satisfaction and fulfillment. A woman finds fulfillment in this life having children and raising them.

When it says "saved" by Jesus for salvation, that's a different Greek word, which speaks of saved from eternal hell. The Greek word for "saved" there in Timothy is life fulfillment.

Now, bring on the thumbs down, God-hating feminazis.