SNAKES DON'T TALK

Snakes Don't Talk

1 Tim. 2:9 

          Paul writing to Timothy about fighting for the faith in the first letter and he comes to possible disruptions within the body in our second chapter. Two disruptions surface from the women in the body. A women needs to understand that her attire can emphasize wrong meaning for her standing in the body.  9 Likewise, I want women to adorn themselves with proper clothing, modestly and discreetly, not with braided hair and gold or pearls or costly garments,   10 but rather by means of good works, as is proper for women making a claim to godliness.   

          Secondary to her attire is her positional state as far as the authority and teaching of the body of Christ. A woman must quietly receive instruction with entire submissiveness. But I do not allow a woman to teach or exercise authority over a man, but to remain quiet. For it was Adam who was first created, and then Eve. And it was not Adam who was deceived, but the woman being deceived, fell into transgression.    

          The reasoning for Paul's doctrine goes clear back to creation and considers God's design of the woman and the man and states that Adam was created first. After being created he was given an enormous task of naming all the animals [cf. Article Name]. He gave meaningful names to each, elephants, giraffes, snakes, etc. And at the end of the task, two truth's surfaced; they came by in pairs and that not once did an animal stop and ask Adam.... "Adam, how are you, is there anything you need?"

          So God then took one of Adam's rib and made him a helpmeet (pairs issue), suitable to him. Adam was created first, then Eve. Eve having not gone through the job of naming the animals did not understand that snakes don't talk. Adam did know this and knowingly voluntarily followed his helpmeet into the death experience.

          We think that Adam should have known God would have replaced Eve after her death but we willingly approve his sin by duplicating both his and her sin in our own walk.

Woman's Position-Headship

[1 Cor. 11:3; Eph. 1:22]

          Paul proceeds first to declare that woman's true position is that of being a helper to man. The nature of that subservient position he is careful to indicate. Here, as was his constant habit, the apostle corrected these small matters by setting them in their true relation to the greater ones, defining the true meaning of temporary things by setting them in relation to the eternal things.

          Woman bears the relation to man that man bears to Christ. The relation man bears to Christ is the relation Christ bears to God. If we commence the argument from the highest fact, the relation of Christ to God, we have at once three great facts to keep in mind.

1. God is equal with Christ,

2. God co-operated with Christ;

3. God is the Head of Christ.

          Carrying this out, we see that Christ made Himself equal with man for co-operation with man, while yet He is the Head of man.

          Again following that argument, the man is equal with the woman in Christ for co-operation with her in Christ, while he is yet the head of the woman in Christ.

          In Gal.3:28 there are those which attempt to take a verse in the context of privilege and attempt to transpose it to the context of position. Poor theological work. Paul speaks on her positional status in 1 Cor. 11:3; 1 Tim. 2:12. Though equal in privilege not positionally. By creation, woman is one stage further from God and Eve was seduced by Satan [cf. Article above Snakes don't talk].