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Timothy 2:l1 let a woman learn in silence with all submission
I
find it ironic that Christianity has gotten sort of a bad wrap for making women
subservient to men. It’s not true by the way, but that’s a post for another day.
When in actuality the early church had an unheard of view of women; when every
culture around the early church viewed women as possessions, God desired them
to be treated as His children. This was revolutionary. Women in this day in
time were not educated. They were kept under the total control of the men in
their lives. In this verse Paul isn’t saying that women should be quiet and NOT
learn. No, not that at all. He is merely teaching how they are to learn. In
fact Paul is commanding that they learn, that they be taught. Can you imagine
how these early Christian women must have felt? To go from being treated like
cattle to being taught, to learning; I can imagine that this would have been
amazing. Perhaps, even some of these women might have gotten a bit carried away
with this new-found freedom, and decided to go even further. Yet, God has given
us, all of us, men and women, a hierarchy of authority. Being respectful of
authority is not being suppressed; everyone has someone they must submit to.
Paul is merely reminding these women and all women this concept.
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