What does Paul mean? "Yet she will be saved through child-bearing ..."
This has been my position for 25 + years. I have a strange habit of enthusiastically agreeing with those who agree with me. People too often assume the word “saved” or “preserved” means salvation of the soul. Once we are open to the idea that we can be delivered from more than hell, we have a better shot at interpreting.
The way I take it is by simple ellipsis of the context:
But women shall be preserved (from the sin Eve committed, taking leadership while Adam wimped out— and thus from taking authority in the church) through the bearing of children (i.e., because they have another role that lends them meaning and unique purpose; in addition —even in the Jewish culture — mothers are considered the first and sometimes most influential spiritual teacher of their children; thus, rather that teaching men, they teach their own children and thus hopefully rear the next generation of Christians).
BTW — how does one get italicize on this new SI site?
The way I take it is by simple ellipsis of the context:
But women shall be preserved (from the sin Eve committed, taking leadership while Adam wimped out— and thus from taking authority in the church) through the bearing of children (i.e., because they have another role that lends them meaning and unique purpose; in addition —even in the Jewish culture — mothers are considered the first and sometimes most influential spiritual teacher of their children; thus, rather that teaching men, they teach their own children and thus hopefully rear the next generation of Christians).
BTW — how does one get italicize on this new SI site?
"The Midrash Detective"
but i read this quote today and thought it very perceptive:
“It is so true that so many of the popular teachings within the church today regarding husband and wives or parents and children does portray antagonistic relationships and, I believe, set people up for failure.”
www.thatmom[DOT] com/?p=3473&cpage=1#comment-4093
“It is so true that so many of the popular teachings within the church today regarding husband and wives or parents and children does portray antagonistic relationships and, I believe, set people up for failure.”
www.thatmom[DOT] com/?p=3473&cpage=1#comment-4093
[Ed Vasicek] BTW — how does one get italicize on this new SI site?Remove the spaces between the brackets - it’s [ i ] and then [ /i ] to end italics.
"Our task today is to tell people — who no longer know what sin is...no longer see themselves as sinners, and no longer have room for these categories — that Christ died for sins of which they do not think they’re guilty." - David Wells
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