Women are daughters of Eve; Biblical Manhood and Womanhood P/12

                                                     Read Part One HERE

In this post I will continue my Comment on Professor Wayne A Grudem's commentary on 1 Timothy 2:11-15. He is a Founding Member of The Council of Biblical Manhood and Womanhood

1 Timothy 2:11-5 is as follows:
 A woman should learn in quietness and full submission.
I do not permit a woman to teach or to have authority over a man; she must be silent.
For Adam was formed first, then Eve.
And Adam was not the one deceived, it was the woman who was deceived and became a sinner.
But women will be saved through childbearing -  if they continue in faith, love and holiness with propriety.

Professor Wayne A. Grudem's commentary on this section of the Scriptures is as follows:
"Should women be Pastors or Elders in the Churches? The single passage in Scripture that addresses this question most directly is 1 Timothy 2:11-4. Here Paul is speaking about the Church when it is assembled. In such a setting, Paul says, "I permit no woman to teach or to have authority over men." These are the functions that are carried out by elders of the Church..... It is specifically these functions unique to Elders that Paul prohibits for women in the Church. The reason Paul gives this prohibition is the situation of Adam and Eve before the Fall and before there was any sin in the world, and the way in which a reversal in male and female roles occurred at the time of the Fall... So Paul used the fact that "Adam was formed first, then Eve," as a reason for restricting some governing and teaching roles in the Church to men."


My Comment (continued from the previous post):

Professor Wayne A. Grudem's commentary is only based on 1 Timothy 11-14. He has not included verse 15
But women will be saved through childbearing - if they continue in love, faith and holiness with propriety.
This is very likely because he uses the literal interpretation method to understand this passage and he knows that he cannot apply this method to verse 15. Unfortunately, this has not made Wayne Grudem consider that verses 11-14 may need to be interpreted differently.
This becomes even more clear when we consider that Paul taught all believers, male and female, are new Creations in Christ as we know from 2 Corinthians 5:17
Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new Creation; the old has passed away, the new has come.
This means that Paul would never takes us back to the first Creation and certainly not to the Fall to live out of for he would always see every believer as a new Creation in Christ!!

Read Part Thirteen HERE