Women Teaching

The Question

Is the created order enough to establish a certain pattern of women’s leadership in the church?

Is the argument for the created order enough to establish women’s role in the church

Paul pulls from .

Does Adam's Chronological position in the created order give him the role of authority?

Here Paul seems to justify his argument for women not teaching in the church on the created order.

Gordon Fee: Disagrees, by saying that he is not referencing the created order at all,

But McArthur, Moo, and Jelinek both believe that Paul’s emphasis is on Adam’s Chronological priority, which gives him a measure of authority.

Eve was completely deceived εξαπατηθεισα (aroist passive participle)

suggests complete deception

Problem in the argument:

Schreiner’s argument: “In approaching Eve, then, the serpent subverted the pattern of male leadership and interacted only with Eve during the temptation..” (emphasis added)

This seems to be an argument from silence.

Summarize:

Jelinek sees the major Genesis concern as being the problem of role reversal in .

Order of questioning: 1) Adam, then 2) Eve

The real problem was that Eve made the decisions for both of them.

Conclusion:

We would agree with Jelinek, Moo, and McArthur.

With the caveat that Jelinek seems, in our section, to not come down extremely strong, but more puts it to the Egalitarian to prove otherwise.