Delegates at the denomination’s convention approved a stricter ban on female pastors and rejected the appeals of two churches led by women to remain in the denomination.
Yikes. There is quite a pattern developing in the religious right, in the US at least. We are turning back the clock folks.
Actual Christian here. This decision is not extreme, whatsoever, though I get that it appears extreme to non-believers and feminists. The thing to understand here is that Christians follow the Bible. And conversely, those who do not follow the Bible are not Christian. So let’s take a look at a relevant Bible passage (1 Timothy 2:11-12):
Let the woman learn in silence with all subjection.
But I suffer not a woman to teach, nor to usurp authority over the man, but to be in silence.
Now that’s the word of God. It’s eternal, unchanging, and dictates how He wills us to live.
It’s definitely out-of-step with modern secular culture, and that’s a very good thing from the Christian perspective. We are God’s peculiar people (Titus 2:11-15).
I’s the words of many men claiming they know what God says. The divinity of Christ wasn’t even decided on the church until the 4th century during council sessions like that of Nicea.
The concept that you seem to be failing to grasp – and I can’t blame you because it escaped me as a Christian as well – is that these are rules that you are welcome to follow. Your religion tells you what you can and can’t do. You can make that choice. The problem comes when you try to apply that to anyone else who doesn’t accept it. Your religion’s rules don’t apply to me, because I’m not part of your religion.
I’m willing to coexist with Christians. But that coexistence has to go both ways.
People are well aware of the ‘why’ behind these types of decisions. There’s a reason Christianity is considered abhorrently sexist by a huge number of people.
It’s definitely out-of-step with modern secular culture, and that’s a very good thing from the Christian perspective
I assume you think slavery should be reinstated as well, since the new testament tells slaves to obey their earthly masters?
also even Christians can’t agree on what it means–do you know how many fucking schisms Christianity has? (and don’t ask about the one which created the Southern Baptists…)
It’s argued that Paul didn’t write Timothy 1. But beyond that, Paul was a false prophet, who took the good work of Jesus and twisted it into his own religion. I often ask Christians who they follow: Jesus or Paul?
Actual Christian here. This decision is not extreme, whatsoever, though I get that it appears extreme to non-believers and feminists. The thing to understand here is that Christians follow the Bible. And conversely, those who do not follow the Bible are not Christian. So let’s take a look at a relevant Bible passage (1 Timothy 2:11-12):
Now that’s the word of God. It’s eternal, unchanging, and dictates how He wills us to live.
It’s definitely out-of-step with modern secular culture, and that’s a very good thing from the Christian perspective. We are God’s peculiar people (Titus 2:11-15).
No, it’s not.
I’s the words of many men claiming they know what God says. The divinity of Christ wasn’t even decided on the church until the 4th century during council sessions like that of Nicea.
Yes it is.
Actual ex-Christian here.
The concept that you seem to be failing to grasp – and I can’t blame you because it escaped me as a Christian as well – is that these are rules that you are welcome to follow. Your religion tells you what you can and can’t do. You can make that choice. The problem comes when you try to apply that to anyone else who doesn’t accept it. Your religion’s rules don’t apply to me, because I’m not part of your religion.
I’m willing to coexist with Christians. But that coexistence has to go both ways.
People are well aware of the ‘why’ behind these types of decisions. There’s a reason Christianity is considered abhorrently sexist by a huge number of people.
I assume you think slavery should be reinstated as well, since the new testament tells slaves to obey their earthly masters?
Hasn’t the Bible been translated from Greek and Hebrew multiple times?
Don;t forget the books the the church in the 1600’s decided shouldn’t be in the bible.
also even Christians can’t agree on what it means–do you know how many fucking schisms Christianity has? (and don’t ask about the one which created the Southern Baptists…)
Yes, and some of them are pretty wacky translations. But the underlying word of God is unchanging.
And didn’t the Catholic Church shuffle around what books were included in the Bible over the years? Like didn’t they take a bunch of books out?
Paul was a legit Rabbi. Old habits die hard.
It’s argued that Paul didn’t write Timothy 1. But beyond that, Paul was a false prophet, who took the good work of Jesus and twisted it into his own religion. I often ask Christians who they follow: Jesus or Paul?