Is this the divinely-inspired word of God?

Question

In 1Corinthians 14: 34-35, St. Paul says:

"Let women be silent in the churches, for they are not permitted to speak; but let them be in subjection, just as the Law says. If they want to learn anything, let them ask their husbands at home. For it is shameful for a woman to speak in church."

Is this the divinely-inspired word of God?

Answer 1

Hardly. But neither is anything else in the bible. It should be treated for all purposes as a work of fiction -- because much (if not all) of it is.

Answer 2

The book of 1 Corinthians is divinely inspired, just like the other 65 books which make up the bible. Being divinely inspired means they are the words of God.

Answer 3

This Law was not from God or Jesus Christ. This Law was inserted by the Laws of the times by the church elders and scribers. Many scriptures of old antiquities claimed as Law by the church are in the Bible but by no means inspired words of God or Jesus Christ.

One has to study the whole Bible and study the history about the Bible to really comprehend its true meanings.

GOD BLESS! AMEN! SHALOM!

Answer 4

This seems like a pointless question. Of course those who believe the Bible is the divinely inspired word of God, will answer yes. Those who don't will answer no.

We don't decide what's divinely inspired based on what we like or agree with. If we did, then it wouldn't be from God, would it? It would be from us.

No one ever promised that we would like everything God said. But does that make God wrong or does it make us wrong? That's the way we look at it.

Answer 5

The first thing you need to go get at the library is a good book about the culture of the times in question.

You will find ;that Paul was melding or bringing together two very different cultures into one.

He was dealing with Jews that now were believers in Jesus Christ and he was dealing with Pagens that now believed.

The Jews had never ever allowed a woman into the temple to hear preaching from the scriptures. Fact is, most Jewish women did not know how to read at all.

The Pagens were on the other end of this spectrum. They exaulted women above all else, to the point of distraction from the actual events. Men would grow their hair out and try to fit in as woman so they could have power and control in the pagen temples.

Now, here comes Jesus Christ and he tells the men whom now believe upon him that they must not keep the good news from the women. The women must be allowed and able to hear and learn of Jesus Christ. They are now allowed to publically worship their God and Savior.

The men accepted this, but as usual, they made up their own rules and regulations regarding the women being in public.

The men would sit on one side of the room and the women would sit on the other.

Now, Jewish women were not allowed to speak to men aside from their fathers, brothers and husband. They could not ask the preacher, teacher and they could not yet read and study on their own. So, they were rude. They yelled across the room to their husbands and asked them to explain things that they did not understand.

This was creating quite a distraction, so the church wrote to Paul and asked him what to do about this situation and other questions that had come up.

Paul wrote back in answer to their questions. he told them that the women should be silent in church and to wait until they got home to ask their husbands questions.

To the Pagens questions, he told them to stop looking and acting as if they were still pagens. Women, cover your head with hair as God gave it to you for covering.
Men do not dress up as women. Cut your hair, stand up and act as a man.

Were these words God breathed? I believe a very much yes.
We tend to read less or more into it that there was at the time.

We know from other writings that Paul put women in charge of churches and he accepted charity from wealthy women whom believed upon Jesus Christ and wanted to help keep Paul afloat in his ministry of spreading the good news.

So, we do know that Paul never meant that women could not be teachers and in charge of churches. We also know that Paul said not to distract the teachers and the preachers. Keep your questions till after you are home.

It is always so much fun and very educational to read and study about the cultures and the history from writings that were done around the same time as the new testament writings and the epistles. It gives a lot of i;nsight into what these people were like aside from the flat words written with no culture taught to us.

Answer 6

Yes, but not every word in the Bible is divine teaching.

The Bible was written by many, many different human authors over a period of approximately 1500 years. These human authors were inspired by God, that is, God breathed ideas into them, which He wanted expressed, and they expressed these ideas in their own way. It was not their intention to write a book that would be entered into "The Bible," as we know it. The whole thrust was to preserve the traditions of how God dealt with His people.
Since the Bible is not one book, but a library of books, there are many different kinds of writing in these books, e.g., prose, proverbs, parables, prophecy, prayers, poetry, (narrative hymns), legends, legal documents, letters, sermons, songs, stories, etc. This is called Literary Form.
In order to be able to understand a passage of the Bible one must be aware of:
1. In what form it was written, e.g., prose, poetry, history, etc. (Literary Form)
2. Why it was written.
3. When it was written.
4. What is the whole book about?
5. What is the meaning of each word?
How does it fit in with other parts of the Bible on the same subject?

The "Dogmatic Constitution on Divine Revelation" (Vat. 11, Ch. 3.11) of the Catholic Church says that "all that the inspired, or sacred writers, affirm should be regarded as affirmed by the Holy Spirit, we must acknowledge that the books of Scripture firmly, and without error, teach that truth which God, for the sake of our salvation, wished to be confided to the sacred Scriptures." This is the Church's teaching on the matter after twenty centuries of Christian discernment.

Biblical inerrancy, then, is the Bible's privilege of never teaching error. Does this mean that every statement in the Bible is divine teaching? Of course not. The Bible does not always teach. There are many statements in its various books that are there for historical, geographical, poetic or other reasons. However, whenever a biblical author intends to teach us something, then the Holy Spirit intends that too. Everything that the Bible teaches is without error, but everything in the Bible is not meant as teaching. Each author was left free by the Lord to express himself according to the ideas of his own day. Exegesis (interpretation) is the science whereby scholars determine the correct interpretation of the text. The Bible is unique, for it is the word of God coming to us in the words of men. Therefore, biblical exegesis demands that we find out what both the human author and the Holy Spirit are trying to say.

True exegesis is Fides quaerens intellectum, which means that faith seeks understanding. So the seeker must approach the Word from the point of faith and love, for the inspired writers communicated the Word in the language of faith and love. To refuse to do this is to have the Bible remain closed to us, even if we can write a literary analysis of every book in it.

The advantages of the Catholic approach are two: First, the inspiration is really proved, not just "felt." Second, the main fact behind the proof—the reality of an infallible, teaching Church—leads one naturally to an answer to the problem that troubled the Ethiopian eunuch (Acts 8:30-31): How is one to know which interpretations are correct? The same Church that authenticates the Bible, that attests to its inspiration, is the authority established by Christ to interpret his word.


References:

scborromeo.org

Catechism of the Catholic Church

Frances Hogan
Can you trust the Bible?

catholic.com/library

Answer 7

If you look closely, the majority of denominations are separated primarily by disagreements over issues of the Pauline Letters. This makes al that he authored questionable (look them up - you will be surprised at how many NT books this applies to.

Answer 8

Yes, God speaks and we obey.

Or you could dis-obey and join Satan where all the cool kids are.

Answer 9

Considering when Paul wrote this he was addressing one specific church.
It is entirely possible that in the church there was one or more very loud, controlling women who constantly disrupted the service.

Answer 10

Paul was the only one of the Apostles to take a stand against women. This was his own opinion, not the gospel of Jesus Christ.