The SBC & Women Pastors

The argument ended before it started. The Southern Baptist Church (SBC) voted overwhelmingly to exclude women for being pastors in their denomination.

First. Denominations are schisms in the Body of Christ according to 1 Corinthians chapter 1.

1 Corinthians 1:10-17 (NKJV) "Now I plead with you, brethren, by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that you all speak the same thing, and that there be no divisions among you, but that you be perfectly joined together in the same mind and in the same judgment.

For it has been declared to me concerning you, my brethren, by those of Chloe’s household, that there are contentions among you. Now I say this, that each of you says, “I am of Paul,” or “I am of Apollos,” or “I am of Cephas,” or “I am of Christ.” Is Christ divided? Was Paul crucified for you? Or were you baptized in the name of Paul?

I thank God that I baptized none of you except Crispus and Gaius, lest anyone should say that I had baptized in my own name. Yes, I also baptized the household of Stephanas.

Besides, I do not know whether I baptized any other. For Christ did not send me to baptize, but to preach the gospel, not with wisdom of words, lest the cross of Christ should be made of no effect."

So should denominations go away? Absolutely. Denominations are here so it appears that they're going no where soon.

Second. Women have been making in roads into the pulpit for a long time.

Here's some examples, compiled by ChatGPT.

"Some notable milestones include:

• Antoinette Brown Blackwell — ordained as a Congregational minister in 1853 in the United States, often cited as the first woman ordained as a minister in a mainstream Protestant denomination in the U.S.

• Clarissa Danforth — ordained in 1815 and considered the first woman Baptist pastor.

• Anna Howard Shaw — ordained in the Methodist Protestant Church in 1880.

• Berthe Bertsch — ordained in 1930, one of the earliest female Protestant pastors in continental Europe.

• Addie Elizabeth Davis — ordained in 1964."

Just because we see women ordained into the ministry, it doesn't mean that the Lord and the Scriptures authorized it. I have yet to see one Scripture giving a history of women in the NT that can be pastors or standing any office. I have yet to see consistent Biblical teaching that unequivically gives women permission.

Misogynist?

Make any statement you want. The Scripture comes from the Lord. Did God make a mistake? God and His Word is perfect. He made no mistakes.

There's no record of a woman apostle, prophet, evangelist, pastor, teacher, bishop, elder, or minister in the Scriptures.

What I see is that what men and woman do is that they try to reinterpret the Scripture to make the Scripture say something that God never intended, to make it seem as if God permitted women to be pastors.

Paul was only talking about wives, not women in general.

Well, that's convenient but it's wrong.

Consistently, the word "woman" in at least 2 texts, is translated the same.

The Greek word is "gyne."

"g1135. γυνή gynē; probably from the base of 1096; a woman; specially, a wife: — wife, woman. AV (221) - women 129, wife 92; a woman of any age, whether a virgin, or married, or a widow, a wife of a betrothed woman."

The definition is assumed to be only talking about "wives," but the expounded Strong's Concordance definition includes, single women (virgins), wives (married), and widows.

It's disingenuous and very misleading to leave out the entire definition.

This word "gyne" is found in 1 Corinthians 14:34-35 and 1 Timothy 2:8-15.

What women and men do is make exceptions to the Scriptures, reading into the text their own thoughts and ideas (Eisegesis) to reinterpret the text to fit their "private interpretation" in violation of 2 Peter 1:18-20 and 2 Peter 3:14-16 to "twist" the Scriptures.

Using this Scripture to give the false impression that women are allowed to be pastors like....

Galatians 3:26-29 (NKJV) "For you are all sons of God through faith in Christ Jesus. For as many of you as were baptized into Christ have put on Christ.

There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free, there is neither male nor female; for you are all one in Christ Jesus.

And if you are Christ’s, then you are Abraham’s seed, and heirs according to the promise."

Now when it comes to reading comprehension, the subject is very important.

Do we see any reference to ministry in this text? No.

So what's the subject?

Being made "...heirs according to the promise."

The second thing is the list of qualifications found in 1 Timothy 3:1-7 and Titus 1:5-10.

The subject is qualifications and which gender is Paul addressing.

The gender that Paul is addressing isn't women but men.

Now we must never insult the intelligence of God. Would it have been smart for the Lord to have the Lord Jesus and Paul to include in writing, the qualifications for women in ministry so that there would be no argument?

"God said to me" is no excuse for Scripture. It's a convenient way to infer that God audibly said something, contravening His Word.

This isn't misonginy. This is the authority of Biblical Scripture. God and the Bible is final authority.

We don't get to change Scripture into what we think and it becomes superior to Scripture.

Now, if women want to be pastors, it's very easy to start a local church and self proclaim that God called you into the ministry (see Revelation 2:18-29). It's not going to stop anyone, male or female.

So why make the SBC accept women to be pastors or to stand in any ministerial office?

Legitimacy. Authenticity. Genuine.

If they accept me, then I'm genuine.

Denominations give legitimacy to women pastors.

Just like homosexuals want to make Christians accept the sin of homosexuality to normalize the sin of homosexuality.

It legitimizes the vile sin of homosexuality to make it normal.

Like I've said. It's not going to stop.

In fact, it's part of the end times that the Lord spoke of in Matthew 24:4-14 and what Paul, by the Spirit expressly said in 1 Timothy 4:1-2.

It may have implications of the Scarlet Woman on the Beast with 7 heads in Revelation chapters 17, 18, and 19. I could be wrong about this.

However, Scripture about qualifications and who, and what gender is qualified settles the argument.

We or any denomination or non denomination doesn't need to vote about it.