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This is a question on which Christians disagree among themselves. Even those who hold the Bible as a sole source of authority reach contradictory conclusions on the matter.
On the side of not permitting women pastors, the main passage is 1 Timothy 2:12-14:
But I do not allow a woman to teach or exercise authority over a man, but remain quiet. For it was ...
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The letters to the seven churches in Revelation have a recurring theme, "he who has ears, let him hear" - and yet they were written letters!
Literally believing a deaf person cannot be saved, I believe with the larger context of scripture, is wrong.
The bible was written - yes, if you had been born deaf, you may have only been minimally literate 2000 years ...
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The apostle Paulos wrote (1 Cor. 9:14), "Even so the Lord has ordained that those who preach the Gospel should live of the Gospel."
On this verse, John Gill writes,
"Even so hath the Lord ordained"
That is, the Lord Jesus Christ (in Matt. 10:10; Luke 10:7-8), it is an order and appointment of his that his ministering servants, who labour in ...
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1Timothy 2:12-14 (NASB) says pretty clearly that women shouldn't be pastors:
12 But I do not allow a woman to teach or exercise authority over a
man, but to remain quiet.
13 For it was Adam who was first created, and then Eve.
14 And it was not Adam who was deceived, but the woman being
deceived, fell into transgression.
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Matthew 11:13-15 (NIV)
For all the Prophets and the Law prophesied until John. And if you are willing to accept it, he is the Elijah who was to come. Whoever has ears, let them hear.
Here's the trick with reading the bible and considering things in context: You have to keep in mind the time that the bible was written!
Two thousand years ago if a ...
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A friend of mine (an Anglican priest) recently preached a sermon in my church about the epistles and how we should read them. He told us of how he had recently found a letter from his father (who had died some years before) in an old book. The letter, he said, was full of good advice about all kinds of things. My friend said that most of it remained good ...
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Claim: Augustine taught that deaf people (without today's cochlear implants) wouldn't be able to be saved merely because they wouldn't be able to hear people telling them about the Gospel.
The claim is just false.
Granted, Augustine did call deafness a "hindrance to faith" -- but in the sense of making faith difficult, but not entirely preventing it. ...
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You can take that verse as literally as you want, so long as you understand what all of the words mean. I believe that the key to it all is "unless someone tells them?"
Tell by definition means to:
give a full account of; to narrate; to make know; to communicate; to give instructions.
So if you can do that to a deaf person, then Scripture stands firm. ...
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The verse I always was referred to on this subject is
I Corinthians 14:34-35 (NLT)
34 Women should be silent during the church meetings. It is not proper for them to speak. They should be submissive, just as the law says.
35 If they have any questions, they should ask their husbands at home, for it is improper for women to speak in church meetings.
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It seems that some of the most popular verses to oppose this are Galatians 3:28, Acts 10:34, and Mark 16:15.
(Gal 3:28) There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither bond nor free, there is neither male nor female: for ye are all one in Christ Jesus.
(Act 10:34) Then Peter opened his mouth, and said, Of a truth I perceive that God is no ...
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