Hi, I haven't posted her but have been a registered member for over a year.
I just saw this string of posts and wanted to answer something said in the post below.
I kindly disagree with you, Kevin, for two reasons. First, Gail Riplinger has been invited by at least one pastor to speak during the Sunday School hour and Sunday morning church service. This was at Temple Baptist Church in Knoxville, TN. You can see some of the video made during her lecture series there at:
http://www.archive.org/details/Quest...wers_Riplinger and
http://www.archive.org/details/Update_NIV_NKJV_NASB. In these videos you can hear her reference the fact that she is there during the Sunday School hour and the Sunday morning service. She teaches through the entire service length.
Second, no matter how much knowledge on any subject a woman has or if she has more knowledge on it than her pastor or any other man, she does not have the right to ignore 1 Corinthians 14:34-35: "Let your women keep silence in the churches: for it is not permitted unto them to speak; but they are commanded to be under obedience as also saith the law. And if they will learn any thing, let them ask their husbands at home: for it is a shame for women to speak in the church." If God's word could be changed to fit certain circumstances that might make sense to us then God's word would soon be unrecognizable. In order to teach in the church a woman has to speak, yet the Scripture expressly says that a woman is to be silent in the church. Common sense tells us that this does not pertain to regular talk, such as a woman talking to other women, her children, or her husband with regular conversation, but to speaking concerning doctrine and instruction while the church is in assembly. We need to read God's word in context so we don't change what He's said, even inadvertently.
Gail Riplinger has taken this passage out of context in interviews because it suits her own disobedience to what it actually is saying. It is important that we defend the context of God's word. It's hard enough to keep Satan from constantly ripping it out of context; let's not let those who claim to love and obey the word of the Lord do it too.
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Originally Posted by Kevin Keever
I think she is "allowed" to teach men because she is so knowledgeable on the subject on which she speaks. She's done the research and leg work so she is the expert. The men need to hear what she has to say. I've never heard of her lecturing on Sunday School, church building, bus routes, soul winning, or church finances. She knows about a topic that is important so men want to hear what she has to say...er write.
I've been at conferences were ladies who were accountants at one time and have served as church financial secretaries for 20+ years were asked to speak to a room full of pastors. Some men got up and left. They went out to eat or something. "No woman gonna tell me how to run my church's money" was the feeling they gave us. Others who wanted to learn from an experience money manager stayed and listened. She wasn't usurping authority over these men; she was teaching on money because she had experience and knowledge on the subject.
KWIM?
I'd listen to Riplinger lecture on the Bible if I had the chance.  She knows much more than I. I've never had a problem listening to a woman teach me something. |
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