We use God's
biblical instructions on how to the build the temple as both guidelines and justifications for building massive and expensive church buildings.
Not exact matches
What is less clear to me is why complementarians like Keller insist that that 1 Timothy 2:12 is a part of
biblical womanhood, but Acts 2 is not; why the presence of twelve male disciples implies restrictions
on female leadership, but the presence of the apostle Junia is inconsequential; why the Greco - Roman household codes represent God's ideal familial structure for husbands and wives, but not for slaves and masters; why the apostle Paul's
instructions to Timothy about Ephesian women teaching in the church are universally applicable, but his
instructions to Corinthian women regarding head coverings are culturally conditioned (even though Paul uses the same line of argumentation — appealing the creation narrative — to support both); why the poetry of Proverbs 31 is often applied prescriptively and other poetry is not; why Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob represent the supremecy of male leadership while Deborah and Huldah and Miriam are mere exceptions to the rule; why «wives submit to your husbands» carries more weight than «submit one to another»; why the laws of the Old Testament are treated as irrelevant in one moment, but important enough to display in public courthouses and schools the next; why a feminist reading of the text represents a capitulation to culture but a reading that turns an ancient Near Eastern text into an apologetic for the post-Industrial Revolution nuclear family is not; why the curse of Genesis 3 has the final word
on gender relationships rather than the new creation that began at the resurrection.
I haven't heard any sermons
on all of those
biblical instructions, but I've heard more than I can count
on 1 Timothy 2:11, which says, «a woman should learn in quietness and full submission.
Yes, but I'm trying to focus the project
on specific
biblical commands and
instructions.
This book or workbook is designed to teach the person some basic
biblical and theological truths as well as some
instruction on basic Christian disciplines like praying, reading the Bible, attending church, and tithing.
P.S. Webb does a great job of grabbing his readers» interest at the beginning of the book by asking them to look through a list of a few dozen verses and mark which
biblical instructions are «still in force for us today exactly as they are articulated «
on the page.
Give Clear
Instructions Ed Miller,
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