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2RM,
Why don't you check both the Oxford English Dictionary and the Merriam Webster Dictionary to see if agglomeration is a word? There's too much guessing on this forum about the meaning of words.
Oz
Jethro,
That's your version of "imposing authority" of the meaning of authanteiv. Why couldn't it mean imposing authority means the gift of bishop is prevented from women having that authority?
Oz
Jethro,
The Revised English Bible, using a dynamic equivalence philosophy of translation, translates 1 Tim 2:12 (REB) as, "I do not permit a woman to teach or, more specifically, to impose authority over a man while first needing to learn, rather she is not to cause a disturbance."
If a pastor...
Hopeful,
It's time for you to write to the translators of The Revised English Bible and tell them they were wrong with their translation of 1 Tim 2:12 (REB): "I do not permit a woman to teach or, more specifically, to impose authority over a man while first needing to learn, rather she is not...
Free,
You haven't bothered to consider the word for authority in 1 Tim 2:12 (authentein) is not the same word for authority in 1 Cor:11:5 (exousia). There's a world of a difference between the meaning of the 2 words.
Oz
Free,
I'm tired of seeing 1 Tim 2:12 used to oppose women in teaching ministry - without any careful exegesis of that text. That's what you have done.
There are problems with the women-must-be-closed-down in ministry in the church. Some of these problems are:
1. There is continuing...
Louis,
There's a reason why the NIV translates "man" as someone or person and "brothers" as brothers and sisters. In certain contexts that is the meaning of anthropos (man) and adelphoi (brothers and sisters). Wouldn't you prefer a more accurate translation of the meaning of words?
The NIV is...
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