"A woman should learn in quietness and full submission. I do not permit a woman to teach or to assume authority over a man; she must be quiet. For Adam was formed first, then Eve. And Adam was not the one deceived; it was the woman who was deceived and became a sinner. But women will be saved through childbearing—if they continue in faith, love and holiness with propriety."1 Timothy 2:11-15
It is biblical Orthodoxy to take this passage as it stands, and feminism is anathema.
We do follow traditions, but not necessarily those of men: some are of divine origin and cannot be changed. Others are admittedly human conventions, and can change with the times. Nothing explicit in the Word of God, such as the passage quoted above, can change.
Why then do we not make women cover their heads in worship, or men uncover them?
Does God really care?
We are all apostates from the Word of God, some of us running away from it, others trying to retrace our steps back to it. But either way, though heaven and earth pass away, this Word shall never pass away. We're simply stuck with it.
Does God really care if we cover our heads in worship if we are women and uncover them if we are men?
I don't think He cares about the action of covering or uncovering, or the state of being covered or uncovered, as much as He cares about the state of our souls, hearts, minds, spirits and bodies, in short, about us as He made us and intended us to be.
The externals, though, are part of the full commandment that the Lord expects us to obey. We are only making it harder on ourselves and prolonging our exile from the Father, Son and Holy Spirit by picking and choosing what we want to obey and what we want to disobey, calling some commandments mere human convention.
The Word of God does not lie, because God does not lie. But we do—to Him, to others, and to ourselves.
May the Lord give us all time to repent and to accept Him wholeheartedly and, doing what pleases Him, let our obedience produce faith, so that by faith we can be saved.
Lord, have mercy on us!
We do follow traditions, but not necessarily those of men: some are of divine origin and cannot be changed. Others are admittedly human conventions, and can change with the times. Nothing explicit in the Word of God, such as the passage quoted above, can change.
Why then do we not make women cover their heads in worship, or men uncover them?
Does God really care?
We are all apostates from the Word of God, some of us running away from it, others trying to retrace our steps back to it. But either way, though heaven and earth pass away, this Word shall never pass away. We're simply stuck with it.
Does God really care if we cover our heads in worship if we are women and uncover them if we are men?
I don't think He cares about the action of covering or uncovering, or the state of being covered or uncovered, as much as He cares about the state of our souls, hearts, minds, spirits and bodies, in short, about us as He made us and intended us to be.
The externals, though, are part of the full commandment that the Lord expects us to obey. We are only making it harder on ourselves and prolonging our exile from the Father, Son and Holy Spirit by picking and choosing what we want to obey and what we want to disobey, calling some commandments mere human convention.
The Word of God does not lie, because God does not lie. But we do—to Him, to others, and to ourselves.
May the Lord give us all time to repent and to accept Him wholeheartedly and, doing what pleases Him, let our obedience produce faith, so that by faith we can be saved.
Lord, have mercy on us!
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