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Re: Can Women Pastor ?

There is no difference in a woman teaching a song or teaching a Bible verse...

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The Great Commission, Mark 16:15, "Preach the Gospel," is to ALL believers, and to all the church of Jesus Christ. The command to "preach the Gospel" is to both male and female.

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The Bible declares that women will prophesy: 1 Cor. 11:5, "For every woman that prayeth or prophesieth...."

Both the Hebrew (Nebrah), and Greek (Proph) used for prophetess means (female preacher). (See Young's Concordance, Pg. 780.)

The word "Prophet" means a public expounder.

The word "Prophesy" means to speak forth, or flow forth. The Bible says in 1 Cor. 14:3, "But he that prophesieth speaketh unto MEN to edification, and exhortation and comfort."

The dictionary says, prophesy is "to speak under divine inspiration...to preach."

Therefore we learn from the original translation, from the Bible interpretation, and from the dictionary, that to prophesy means more than to tell the future, but it is to speak publicly about the past, present, or future. It is to preach under the anointing of the Holy Spirit.

The Old and New Testament prophets and prophetesses were preachers of God's Word.

Even if the words prophet and preacher could be separated, how could anyone prophesy to bring exhortation, comfort and edification to the church, if she were forbidden to speak in church and was to keep silent? (prophecy is for the church)
Would God inspire and anoint someone to do something that was wrong and sinful???

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Some say God will not use a woman to preach, because "The woman was deceived," but remember Romans 5:12: "Wherefore, as by one man sin entered into the world." It seems to indicate that Adam was just as guilty as Eve in the fall of man. If anyone should be kept from preaching because of sin, it would be Adam. But God does not forbid anyone from preaching, because of Adam's or Eve's sin.

The WB followers told me I could not preach because of Eve...lol...

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1 Cor. 14: 34-35 does not say anything about women preachers. If Paul intended this verse as a general rule to bar all women from speaking in church, then they cannot teach Sunday School, testify, pray, prophesy, sing, or even get saved, and this would contradict the rest of the Bible (Acts 2:4; Acts 2:16-18) and many more scriptures...

Re: I agree...............but................

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Originally Posted by rdp (Post 836926)

So if I write a letter from someone's home, refer to a husband & wife as "fellow-labourers in the gospel," mention a husband & wife giving a home Bible study to someone, refer to Jill before John, are they automatically deemed as "Preachers"????????????? This is arguing from assumption, not the actual texts. Besides, there's no sense in my dealing w/ these age old arguments until you can directly deal w/ I Tim. 2:11-15, I Cor. 14:34...just for starters.

I know that you will not change your mind, because you base your doctrine on experience & supposed church history [trinitarian at that], not plainly written Scriptural instruction to the church...until it comes to the hair issue/modesty etc. It's called selectivity.

And I do not make light of everything you say, as I hold you in high regard for your sacrifices, as I've stated ad nauseum. But, sadly, you employ appeals outside of the Biblical texts in order to render Paul's plain teachings to the church ineffective. It's calles "Theological Sniping". That is, whem you simply try to take pot-shot's at someone's position, w/out providing any textual/exegetical explanation of the passages under consideration....such as I Tim. 2 & I Cor. 14:34.

Please be advised that the first and second century church met in homes not church buildings. Every church service was essentially a "home Bible study". What we know as Church today is far from what the Apostles would recognize.

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Originally Posted by Aquila (Post 838050)

That is so true...

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Christ's Church is not a building, but rather it is found where two or three are gathered together in His name, whether at a street meeting, in a tent, a home, church, classroom or anywhere else.

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By the way I don´t think any lady of God would ever try to take a man´s place...however she would not sit idle and let souls perish...

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No godly woman would ever want to rule over a man...