Bible on women ordination : Can a woman be a Pastor?

Bible on women ordination : Can a woman be a Pastor?

Posted on November 20, 2019 Updated on November 20, 2019

Babatope Babalobi babalobi@yahoo.com

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1. Apostle Paul is perhaps the greatest of all the human authors of the Bible books, yet he is one of the most controversial.
2. His ‘controversial’ teachings include themes on women dressing, celibacy, and women ordination.
3. Orthodox churches dont ordain women, while Pentecostal churches do. Both cite Paul’s epistles and other passages to buttress their positions.
4. Where you stand depends on how you interpret the following scriptures:
5. 1 Corinthians 14 vs 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.
6. 1 Corinthians 24 vs 35- and if they learn anything, let them ask their husbands at home: for it is a shame for women to speak in the church.
7. Timothy 2 vs 11- Let the woman learn in silence with all subjection.
8. 1 Timothy 2 vs 12: But I suffer not a woman to teach nor to usurp authority over the man but to be in silence.
9. On face value, the literal meaning of the above passages is that women should be silence, and behave like dummies in church, and look unto their husbands at home for spiritual understanding.
10. Interesting there are other passages which contradicts this interpretation.
11. Galatians 3:28 -There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free, there is no male and female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus.
12. Joel 2:28 “And it shall come to pass afterward, that I will pour out my Spirit on all flesh; your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, your old men shall dream dreams, and your young men shall see visions
13. Romans 16:3 -Greet Prisca and Aquila, my fellow workers in Christ Jesus.
14. The three passages quoted above shows spiritual gifts are for male and female and women were church workers during the time of Paul.
15. Making women silent and dummies in churches does not make sense. Yet every word in the Bible is rational and these passages can not be an exception.
16. We dont know the order of worship and church practice when Paul wrote the epistles but what we know is that Paul wrote the epistles in response to contentions and confusion in church services during his time supposedly caused by questions raised by women.
17. Let us also remember that the Church in Paul’s time did not have the Bible as such there was no standard of church’s practice.
18. Also the Christianity was just being developed as such what it meant was not clear and these caused contentions in churches as women who are naturally more outspoken asked a lot of questions confusionsin the process .
19. These days we have the Bible and anyone man or women that is able to read the Bible is also free to teach and preach on its contents.
20. The word ‘speak’ could also be taken as referring to ‘argue’, otherwise if it means not uttering a word how could women participate in other church services like Singing?
21. Finally, let us remember the final words of Jesus wherein he commanded and ordained everyone male and female to do the work of an Evangelist.
22. Matthew 27 vs 19:Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost: ²⁰teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you: and, lo, I am with you alway, even unto the end of the world. Amen.
23. Jesus commanded everyone male and female, young and old to go and teach the gospel.
24. No matter how you interpret Paul’s epistles on women’s teaching ministry, it can never overrule Jesus’ commandments.

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