Recent content by OzSpen

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2RM, Why do you attribute the creation account to the Bronze Age Jews? Oz

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

Exegisis of Scripture in the original languages. 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, You have not interpreted the correct word for authority used here - authentein. Please do your homework. Oz

Jethro, You are not responding to what I wrote. I said: 'If a pastor is "imposing authority" and she is female, it seems to violate Scripture.' Oz

From where did you gain that theological information?

So, are the commandments Paul wrote to various Christian churches not relevant today? Or are they not relevant to jaybo's type of churches? 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...

Can a woman be a woman of one man, which is just as valid a translation? Oz

Free, Women can't "keep silent" in the churches and also prophesy (1 Cor 11:5). That combination doesn't work. Oz

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...

Not without proper exegesis of the text.

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