2. 1 Timothy 2:13-15 2:13 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. 15 But women will be preserved [lit: “Saved”] through the bearing of children if they continue in faith and love and sanctity with self-restraint. 1 Timothy 2:13-15 2:13 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. 15 But women will be preserved [lit: “Saved”] through the bearing of children if they continue in faith and love and sanctity with self-restraint. 1 Timothy 2:15 (KJV) Notwithstanding she shall be saved in childbearing, if they continue in faith and charity and holiness with sobriety.

3. 1 Timothy 2:12 (KJV) But I suffer not a woman to teach, nor to usurp authority over the man, but to be in silence!! NOT: “I don’t like it!” 1 Timothy 2:5-6 For there is one God, and one mediator also between God and men, the man Christ Jesus, who gave Himself as a ransom for all, the testimony given at the proper time. Rather: Contradictions with scripture Opposing critical interpretations.

4. Traditional Women can’t teach/lead (v.12)Easily deceived/deceivers (v.14) Keep women barefoot & “preggers” (v.15) Tertullian to women: “Are you ignorant that you are an Eve? The sentence of God still lives upon your sex even in this present age, and of necessity the guilt lives on too. You are the devil’s gateway, you are the unsealer of that tree, you are the first destroyer of divine law, you are she who persuaded him whom the devil was unwilling to attack directly.”

5. Traditional Women can’t teach/lead (v.12)Easily deceived/deceivers (v.14) Keep women barefoot & “preggers” (v.15) Radical These women need education Do not allow our freedom to cause chaos: keep order. Luke 10:41-42 But the Lord answered and said to her, "Martha, Martha, you are worried and bothered about so many things; but only one thing is necessary, for Mary has chosen the good part, which shall not be taken away from her." Galatians 3:28 There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free man, there is neither male nor female; for you are all one in Christ Jesus. 1 Timothy 5:1-2 5:1 Do not sharply rebuke an older man, but rather appeal to him as a father, to the younger men as brothers, the older women as mothers, and the younger women as sisters, in all purity.

6. “The Role of Women in the Church” Peter Ditzel “Women in general have a tendency to be more easily duped than men. Because of this tendency, they are not to be teachers, or preachers, or hold an office (which implies authority) in church.” Empirically Disproven More in college & graduating Basically FALSE Who cares? Castrate the Male Leaders Matthew 19:12 "For there are eunuchs who were born that way from their mother's womb; and there are eunuchs who were made eunuchs by men; and there are also eunuchs who made themselves eunuchs for the sake of the kingdom of heaven. He who is able to accept this, let him accept it."

7. Near Context 2:1 Fellowship together Larger Context 1:18 “Fight…” 1:3 “stop teaching strange doctrines”

8. We suggest that 1 Timothy 2:13-14 is concerned not with laying the blame on women but with a strong repudiation of a popular false teaching which glorified Eve and the serpent. Kroeger and Kroeger, I Suffer Not a Woman: Rethinking I Timothy 2:11-15 in Light of Ancient Evidence

9. 1:3 “stop teaching strange doctrines” 4:3 men who forbid marriage and advocate abstaining from foods… 5:13 [younger widows are] learning to be idle, as they go around from house to house…talking about things not proper to mention. 2 Ti. 3:6 those who enter into households and captivate idle women… 1 Tim. 6:20 O Timothy, guard what has been entrusted to you, avoiding worldly and empty chatter and the opposing arguments of what is falsely called “knowledge”— 21 which some have professed and thus gone astray from the faith.

10. But I do not allow a woman to teach or exercise authority over a man, but to remain quiet. “do not allow” Present tense: “Not currently allowing” We KNOW Paul taught & led with women elsewhere “exercise authority” Authentein: “domineer” Only occurance in NT

11. Paul mentions several women, including Priscilla, as “fellow laborers” and asks that Christians be subject to such as these (Phil. 4:2-3; Rom. 16:3-4, 6, 12; 1 Cor. 16:16, 19). Junia is called a “noteworthy apostle” (Rom. 16:7)

14. Galatians 5:1 It was for freedom that Christ set us free; therefore keep standing firm and do not be subject again to a yoke of slavery.

15. 1 Timothy 2:13 For it was Adam who was first created, and then Eve.