It appears that obscure cults don't have the market cornered on radical religious beliefs.
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Baptist Preacher Says Bible Bans Women From Teaching Men
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Baptist Preacher Says Bible Bans Women From Teaching Men
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Yep, if that were true, you guys wouldn't know anything! Ha!
However, I think there's more to the story than that she's a woman, and they are just not going to say what the real reason is. It can be a very touchy issue when it's time for folks to move along after they become an institution like that. Perhaps she's not able to do power point! Ha! (You think I'm kidding, don't you?)
For the life of me, I can't see why that even made the news in Watertown, much less became a major news story -- that is really bizarre in light of the world's problems, and so what if adult sunday schools still offer women the choice of an all-women's class.
Most like the freedom it offers, but if not, they go to a mixed class with their spouses or with other singles.
Men like the same option.
I don't think most churches down here have stringent rules about women teaching men as I know many who do, including my own sister who teaches a mixed class alternating with other teachers who are sometimes men.
In Jesus, there are no Greek nor Jew nor male or female according to Christian scripture -- in other words, according to him, no divisions in the church. This was about as radical as you could get 2000 years ago.
Oh, and then, there was that encounter with the Samaritan woman at the well -- viewed as disgraceful among Jesus's own people.
Hope ya don't mind the commentary, but alot of people, especially younger people than us, aren't familiar with any of these passages. It's amazing what we've lost in just a few decades!
Yours, Luce
However, I think there's more to the story than that she's a woman, and they are just not going to say what the real reason is. It can be a very touchy issue when it's time for folks to move along after they become an institution like that. Perhaps she's not able to do power point! Ha! (You think I'm kidding, don't you?)
For the life of me, I can't see why that even made the news in Watertown, much less became a major news story -- that is really bizarre in light of the world's problems, and so what if adult sunday schools still offer women the choice of an all-women's class.
Most like the freedom it offers, but if not, they go to a mixed class with their spouses or with other singles.
Men like the same option.
I don't think most churches down here have stringent rules about women teaching men as I know many who do, including my own sister who teaches a mixed class alternating with other teachers who are sometimes men.
In Jesus, there are no Greek nor Jew nor male or female according to Christian scripture -- in other words, according to him, no divisions in the church. This was about as radical as you could get 2000 years ago.
Oh, and then, there was that encounter with the Samaritan woman at the well -- viewed as disgraceful among Jesus's own people.
Hope ya don't mind the commentary, but alot of people, especially younger people than us, aren't familiar with any of these passages. It's amazing what we've lost in just a few decades!
Yours, Luce