a. �Muzzling women�? p. 22
b. Slavery? p. 1
c. Harming evangelism? p. 10
d. Complexity? p. 2, 22
e. Piety? p. 2, 22
a. Points of agreement (Gen 1:26-28)
i. Co rulers
ii. Co image bearers
b. Point of disagreement (Gen 3:16)-p. 5
i. Order of creation
ii. Adam names Eve (Gen 2:23; 3:20)
iii. Accountability (Gen 3:6, 9; Rom 5:12)
c. Trinitarian analogy
i. Son submits to the Father (John 8:58-59)
ii. Son retains deity (Luke 22:42; Phil 2:6-8)
a. OT
i. Pattern
1. No queens in Israel or Judah (Athaliah)
2. No female priests (teachers)
3. No female authors of OT books
4. No ongoing female speaking ministries (Elijah/Elisha)
5. Examples are exceptions to norm
ii. Examples used
1. Miriam (Exod 15:20)
2. Deborah (Judg 4�5)
3. Huldah (2 Kgs 22:14)
4. Joel 2:28; Acts 2:17
b. NT
i. Pattern
1. No women pastors
2. No female congregational leaders
3. No female elders (1 Tim 3:1-2; Titus 1:6)
4. No female deacons (Acts 6:3; 2 Tim 3:12)
5. No record of a female sermon
6. No female apostles (Luke 6:12; Eph 2:20; Matt 19:28)
7. No female authors of NT books
8. Examples are exceptions to norm
ii. Examples
1. Priscilla (Acts 18:26)
2. Philip�s 4 prophetess daughters (Acts 21:9)
3. Junia the Apostle (Rom 16:7)
4. Phoebe the deacon (Rom 16:1)
5. Euodia and Syntyche (Phil 4:2-3)
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a. Webb�s upward trajectory redemptive hermeneutic
i. Description of the upward trajectory
1. Pre OT culture
2. OT
3. Post OT culture
4. NT
5. NT culture
ii. Academy into the local church (ideas have consequences)
b. Problems with Webb�s approach (See Grudem appendix 5)
i. Not sola scriptura (Rev 22:18-19; Jude 3; 2 Tim 3:17; 2 Pet 1:3)
ii. Apostasy
iii. Hermeneutical innovativeness can be used to justify any theology
iv. Homosexuality
v. No upward trajectory
1. Gen 1:26-28
2. Overwhelming pattern throughout church history
a. Selective universalism
i. Eden
ii. Question of emphasis
iii. Settle down vs. complete silence
iv. Non-soteriological
b. One time cultural situation
i. Temple cult
ii. Problems
1. Cultural �cop out�
2. Which scholarly reconstruction?
3. 1 Tim 5:13 only
4. 1 Tim 2:12 = any woman
5. Adam and Eve = trans cultural
6. Exousian vs. authentein
7. Pandora�s box (2 Tim 3:15�4:2)
c. Over breadth
i. Appropriate circumstances (Titus 2:4; 2 Tim 1:5)
ii. Secular employment (1 Tim 3:15)
d. 100 verses vs. 2-3 verses
i. Previous
ii. Epistolary material
iii. Pastoral letter
a. IBC finally sees the obvious (1 Tim 3:1-2; Titus 1:6)
b. Problems
i. Post modern: bridging the opposites
ii. Inconsistency
iii. IBC still wants the mantel of being a conservative Bible church
© 2008 Andy Woods