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Originally Posted by Sister Alvear
“The testimony of Jesus is the spirit of prophecy”; but prophesying includes something more than testimony; it includes teaching, exhortation, and edification, by unfolding the deep mysteries of the kingdom, and it also may include foretelling of events, etc.
And for a woman to do that she must open her mouth...and prophecy is said to be given in the church....But I suffer not a woman to teach, nor to usurp authority over the man, but to be in silence.” 1 Tim. 2:11, 12. This can not refer to women ministering through spiritual gifts, for God always gives with the gift the authority for the ministration of the same. Even in case of a husband and wife, if the wife is gifted and the husband not, she has the authority to exercise the gift, and she is not usurping any authority which belongs to him. The authority in the church belongs with the gifts to those possessing them, and not to some relative, wife or husband....
God is over His church and he told us in His word to desirse spiritual gifts...and especially to prophecy.... |
This is perverted. This is an attempt, however poor, to go contrary to the express teaching of
1 Tim 2:11-12, 1Cor 14:34-35. There is a clear difference between spiritual gifts and the called offices of ministry. Anyone in the church can be used in the gifts per
1 Cor 14, not everyone in the church meets the qualifications required for the offices of the called ministry. Unless of course you allow same sex marriages for bishops and deacons. Where was that female OT priest? Where is that NT female bishop or deacon or their qualifications? Where is that NT female apostle chosen by Christ? Where is that female evangelist, so named, in the Bible? Where is the female elder in the NT, where is that female pastor in the Bible?
Gal 1:7.. ..Which is not another; but there be some that trouble you, and would pervert the gospel of Christ.