What is your interpretation of this difficult and often misinterpreted verse?
"Notwithstanding she shall be saved in childbearing, if they continue in faith and charity and holiness with sobriety."?
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
Facebook Badge
About Me
- Jonathan Melton
- I am an unapologetic Landmark Missionary Baptist preacher, a Christian, Constitutional conservative, and currently a fourth-year student at Louisiana Missionary Baptist Institute and Seminary (LMBIS).
Here's my stab: First of all, we all agree that it has nothing to do with the salvation of her soul. Taken into context with the passage about a woman's role in the church and her part in the Fall, my interpretation is that she makes up for her role "in the transgression" and fulfills her purpose God ordained for her as a woman when she raises her children in the nurture and admonition of the Lord and they grow up to trust the Lord and lead Godly lives.
ReplyDeleteThe question that then comes is does this demean a woman in any way? Let me answer that as well: I feel blessed of God that I had a mother that stayed at home with me as a child. She was always there when I was and only took jobs such as cleaning houses, substitute teaching at school, selling AVON, etc. to help supplement the family income. She has always been a Godly example, her prayers have reached the throne of God and have achieved results, and I dearly love and respect her for this and have never looked down upon her even though the world will denigrate her and try to persuade her that she missed something and try to get her to look for "life out there."
"she shall be saved in childbearing"
ReplyDeleteHow are all saved? In Jesus Christ. Galatians 4:4, "But when the fulness of time was come, God sent forth his Son, made of a woman..."
In childbearing, the Word was made flesh...and we all have hope. Sorry for preaching but my dear, wise pastor, the late Bro. A.D. Munsinger, taught me this interpretation of the verse.
Bro. Jonathan, my blog is at adriansarrows.blogspot.com
ReplyDeletevisit anytime
Bro. Neal,
ReplyDeleteThe view you gave is also the one held by my dad and also by John Gill, the Baptist commentator who was the forerunner of Charles Spurgeon as pastor at Metropolitan Tabernacle. Bro. Albert Garner in his commentaries sets forth a view similar to mine as well as Bro. Joe Brown who is my pastoral counseling instructor at LMBIS. That is where the idea for this post came from: class discussion from this morning as we are examining 1 Timothy as a guide for counseling.
I think for sure the issue is a BEARING of a child, not a raising of a child. Don't confuse the two?
ReplyDelete