Read Part One HERE
I continue to share from the article "7 Steps To Groom Your Young Bride." written by Larry Solomon. This article can be found on his website Biblical Gender Roles.
Step #5 - Get Your Wife A Female Spiritual Mentor
"The aged women, likewise, that they be in behaviour as becometh holiness, not false accusers, not given to much wine, teachers of good things; that they may teach the young women to be sober, to love their husbands, to love their children, to be discreet, chaste, keepers at home, good, obedient to their own husbands, that the word of God is not blasphemed." Titus 2:3-5 (KJV).
Larry Solomon: "The Bible does not just support the concept of female mentorship, but it actually commands it. You may hear some horror stories from older men whose wives were actually led astray by ungodly advice from their girlfriends at church or elsewhere. But mentoring by good and godly women who fully embrace and live out Biblical gender roles can have life changing effects on women."
My Comment
Good and godly women will not fully embrace and live out Biblical gender roles as suggested by Larry Solomon since such roles are not found in Scripture. Consequently, they will not teach them either to other women. As for women to be" obedient" to their own husbands, the Greek word here is "hupotasso" and means "submission" which refers to a voluntary aligning oneself with their husbands. It does not mean "obedience" even though that is the term used in the KJV. Children are told to "hupakouo" or "obey" their parents but wives are never told to "hupakouo" their husbands. They are only told to "hupotasso" their husbands. And that is to be done in a setting of mutual submission as we know from Ephesians 5:21-22. As for wives to be keepers at home, on the whole the lives of women in the Bible was at home due to the cultural restraints of that time. However, Lydia was a business woman (Acts 16:14). Likewise, Priscilla was a tent maker together with her husband (Acts 18:1-3). And Paul commends many women. However, he does not mention them in the context of being keepers at home but in the context of their functions as leaders in the Body of Christ. Examples can be found in Romans 16:1-2, 3, 6, 7, 12; 1 Corinthians 1:1; Colossians 4:15 to name just a few. Moreover, Jesus had women disciples who travelled with Him (Matthew 27:56; Luke 8:1-3).
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