Rice believes women must know their place: Paganism has entered the Church P/6

                                                      Read Part One HERE
 

In this post I will compare a statement from the Pagan Greek Philosopher Aristotle with a statement from the Southern Baptist Evangelist John R. Rice.

Aristotle has said the following:

The male is by nature superior and the female inferior, and the one rules and the other is ruled.

John R. Rice has said the following:

God made Adam First. Eve was made second as his helpmeet subject to him. For that reason, says Paul, women are not to teach men in the church, are not to be chief officers in the church nor to have authority over men. For women to take such authority is not properly and naturally theirs. From the creation I Timothy 2:11-15 says, women are to take the place of subjection, because they were not created to have authority over men to teach men.

My Comment:

From the above statements we can learn that the Southtern Baptist Evangelist John R. Rice's thinking was very like that of the Pagan Greek Philosopher Aristotle when discussing the roles of men and women. It is very obvious, therefore, that John R. Rice was very influenced by past cultures in his understanding of the word of God when it is related to that particular subject, which in turn would have influenced the view of the Southern Baptist Church on the role of men and women.

 

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