Paul approved women Apostles in service to his Gospel and churches.
Man's arrogance presumes women would never be called by God to preach.
Jesus had women on the company of himself and his companions. 12 Disciples are named as each coming from one of the 12 tribes. That doesn't mean the women with Jesus were not Disciples too.
They were because Jesus/Yeshua was teaching them all. And they were all there when he issued the command for the great commission.
God calls whom he will to his Salvation. Yet,he would never call a woman to lead his church or preach his good news? Nonsense.
Sin entered the world by one man!
Men aren't superior vehicles to deliver salvations message. One of their number is why we need saving.
Eve was deceived, not Adam. That’s true. But also true is what Paul said about women leading the church. Men and women have God designed roles. Men aren’t superior to women; they aren’t smarter than women. Women aren’t superior to me; they aren’t smarter than men. In Messiah there are neither male nor female - and yet, here we are; males and females in Messiah, each with roles to play - by design; some best suited for women, others best suited for men. Women are to teach other women, and children in their care, be they male or female. Women financially supported the work of Jesus and the apostles. Somen opened their homes for the church to meet. Women were even permitted by Paul to prophesy in church, in an orderly fashion. What they weren't’ permitted to do was to teach men and to lead the church.
Paul was repressing women? That’s feminist propaganda. Paul was appealing to order and design.
Please watch the video, if you haven’t already. Those women want what they want and what they want is for men and women not to listen to what the Apostle says about it. They know better than he does. It’s a fact, the woman warbles, that God called women to be priests! Really? It’s a fact because she says it’s a fact? An argument that wouldn’t have stood up in biblical times and isn’t, at the moment, standing up in the Catholic church. The woman says we should look at the Protestant church. They ”schmooze” her - a siren call which she laughs off. Liberalism is taking over. Did I near someone in the back say“ United Methodist”? Liberalism has been taking over for quite a long while now. Whole denominations have abandoned many of their long held doctrinal beliefs. (Please forgive me for not remembering and quoting the words of the Sparkle Creed - written and brought to us by a female pastor, and rapidly gaining popularity with many female pastors; no doubt some male pastors, too. We can look them up, if you’d like to.)
The patriarchy is, she wants us to believe, the culprit. Men, in general, (Paul and the pope, in particular) are holding women down. “Rise up, rebels! Throw off the yoke of Paul! Someone get the pope out of the way! Men and women, dance and sing the song of the rebellion! We want our church back and let the women lead the way.”
The rebels are too liberal for Paul. I think I’ve made it clear that I stand with the Apostle against them. If Paul is going to take heat for what he said about women, I’ll take it with him.
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Provided for your viewing pleasure, or displeasure, whichever the case may be: The Sparkle Creed, read for us by a female pastor.
If you, or others, are interested in the background story on the Sparkle Creed (and the female pastor who authored it), I’m providing a link to an article devoted to the subject.
(ANALYSIS) The Sparkle Creed was circulated in 2021 by the Rev. Rachel Small Stokes of Immanuel United Church of Christ in Louisville, Kentucky. A Shower of Stoles website biography notes that she was raised United Methodist, served as a missionary in that denomination and trained for the ministry.
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I think it’s safe to say that Paul, at the very least, would be appalled. More than likely, he would take swift action to put an end to this, remove her from the church, and turn her over to Satan (cp. 1 Corinthians 5:5).
