"For God is not the author of confusion, but of peace, as in all churches of the saints. Let your women keep silence in the churches: for it is not permitted unto them to speak; but they are commanded to be under obedience, as also saith the law. And if they will learn any thing, let them ask their husbands at home: for it is a shame for women to speak in the church. What? came the word of God out from you? or came it unto you only? If any man think himself to be a prophet, or spiritual, let him acknowledge that the things that I write unto you are the commandments of the Lord. But if any man be ignorant, let him be ignorant."
This is in the Bible. This is God's Word. If you do not conform to God's Word you don't know God, neither Christ Jesus, and will be counted among the many whom Jesus Christ will deny at Judgment.
The curse of the woman:
To the woman He said: “I will greatly multiply your sorrow and your conception; in pain you shall bring forth children; your desire shall be for your husband, and he shall rule over you.”
This is a curse, a judgment. That curse is of pain in childbirth (which is seen the world over) and of desiring a man's status (which is seen the world over). Yes, this curse is not a desire of a sexual nature but of status. This curse is the sure Word of God.
The woman's sin-nature will desire to rule over her husband but the man of God will rule over his wife. It would be sin for a husband to allow his wife to rule over him, as that would be against the Word of God: "and he shall rule over you." If husbands do not rule over their wives, they transgress the law (the Word of God) and thus sin. To live in sin is to not know Jesus Christ.
To allow women to speak in church is to sin - for does not this Bible, which is the Word of God which you claim to follow, forbid it?
Logos Prevailing.
Pastoral sermon which inspired this post: "Does the Bible Permit a Woman to Preach?"
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