Comment on She strongly disagrees

chunes@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

• morphballganon@mtgzone.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  But shouldn’t it be concerning that a figure as prominent as Paul would say such a thing?

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  • technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Yes. Dude is a fraud.

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• Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  The paragraph before it says this: “Therefore I want the men everywhere to pray, lifting up holy hands without anger or disputing.”

  So that too must be just a letter and not a doctrinal command from god.

  And Paul says “I don’t permit.” Not “You shouldn’t permit.” So it’s also how the rest of the Christian church was run. It wasn’t a special instruction for Timothy because of special circumstances. Not that ANY circumstances justify such a prohibition.

  “Don’t allow heresy.” is fine. Paul doesn’t doesn’t prohibit Men from teaching heresy or dressing immodestly. (The excuse some give is this was a letter because of the Cult of Artemis.)

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• Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Isn’t that cherrypicking? If you discount what Paul says to Timothy as being applicable only to his church then you have to discount the rest:

  " For there is one God and one mediator between God and mankind, the man Christ Jesus, "

  “Therefore I want the men everywhere to pray, lifting up holy hands without anger or disputing.”

  There is nothing in the text to suggest that Paul was instructing only Timothy about a special case for his church. Paul said " I do not permit." He didn’t say, “You shouldn’t permit.”

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