for Christians?

Question

Cor1 14:34 Let your women keep silence in the churches: for it is not permitted unto them to speak; but they are commanded to be under obedience as also saith the law
Cor1 14:35 And if they will learn any thing, let them ask their husbands at home: for it is a shame for women to speak in the church

why ?

Answer 1

That's the way god want's it.

Answer 2

Those are verses I was very confused about the first time I read them too. And was kind of like what the mess? But anyways,

Paul (right? yeah, I'm pretty sure) was writing to a specific group of people during a specific time. And what was happening at the time was the women would jump up and shout and blab during church meetings and interrupt so nothing was being taught. They were makiing things chaotic. Paul just wanted them to calm down. And if you continue to read it says something about that this is not a strict law, but a suggestion from Paul. There were plenty of women that were on fire for christ in the new testament and old. It was just an issue of their culture. And shouldn't be used to say men are superior. I encourage you to research the subject more.

Answer 3

you must look at the text before/after these passages :)

"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 14:35). Paul had in mind a certain group of women with husbands. It is most probable that these were the wives of the prophets. The wives were adding to the "confusion" in the assembly (v. 33). They were probably "asking questions" while their husband was prophesying, which was an opening for these "liberated women" to disrupt and direct the assembly.

The silence Paul enjoins on women in 1 Cor. 14:34 is when women attempt to disrupt God's delegation of authority and male leadership by taking the lead in the assembly.

Answer 4

This was a letter to the church in Corinth.

Speak was mistranslated. It was actually meant to say "for it is not permitted unto them to rule" and so on.

However in Cor 1 11:11-12 it states "Nevertheless neither is the man without the women, neither the woman without the man, in the Lord. For as the woman is of the man, even so is the man also by the woman".

Consider also, Cor 1 7:3 "Let the husband render unto the wife due benevolence: and likewise also the wife unto the husband. The wife hath not power of her own body, but the husband: and likewise also the husband hath not power of his own body, but the wife."

The statement that women were never seen in the temple is patently false. Consider in Luke 2:36-38 the prophetess, Anna, who "departed not from the temple" for decades who met the infant Jesus at the temple in Jerusalem and prophesied of his ministry.

Answer 5

We recently talked about this in my church as we are studying this book currently. The way my pastor explained it and I have studied it on my own and it seems to be an accepted theory is the following. During that time the women were for the most part poorly educated if they had any education at all. Also during that time the men and women sat on opposite sides of the church. While the pastor was up preaching a woman would sometimes not understand what he meant. She would yell across the aisle and ask her husband and disturb the church. Thus Paul admonished them to be silent in the church. This makes sense to me. If God had intended women to not speak at all why did He give them the baptism of the Holy Spirit? Why did Priscilla tell Apollos he was teaching incorrectly.

Answer 6

It was tradition for the women to sit separate from the men. Some of the women were asking their husbands questions while someone was teaching and it was a disturbance.

This has nothing to do with women not having any say in Church. This is not the idea, at all.

Answer 7

Paul wrote these instructions to the church in Corinth because the women there had become disruptive during services and, in some cases, basically taking over the speakers time with questions and answers among themselves. It is not intended to stifle women from participating at appropriate times during a service, just to bring order the the Corinthian Church.

Answer 8

When this was written the women sat on one side and the men on the other during services. If the women did not understand what was being said they yelled to hubby and it became very disruptive. This scripture is not meant to silence women in church for everything, but rather to keep things done decently and in order as the scriptures teach.

Answer 9

That was a particular command, for a particular people in a particular time.

Some women were being disruptive of the services and Paul said to talk it over with their husbands after church.

Answer 10

Hey well look Im a member of the Church of Christ which is considered as the most strict of christian churches. And yeah we do follow that in the sense that women do not serve in the worship service whenever we have them. But look if you are christian you should know that the most important thing is to do as God orders, and if that's what it says than just do it don't question it. God knows why he does things. add me *** a contact, i think we could learn from each other.

Answer 11

Paul wrote a letter to the people of Corinth. at that time women were in sexual perversity in the church. Idols of femininity was a practice with a mixture of Christianity.

It was a shame for a woman to speak because she was not educated regarding the word of God during that time. She did not know! Women caused men to sin because of sexual lust in that day.