by Ty Gibson When asked to provide the most direct and explicit biblical statement against women’s ordination, advocates of the position point to Paul’s statement in 1 Timothy 3:2 : “A bishop (episkope) then must be blameless, the husband of one wife….” Paul’s point here, we are told, is that the bishop (what we now generally call thepastor) must be male, because the pastor must be a husband. But there are at least two sound hermeneutical reasons we know with certainty that this is not Paul’s point. First, in this same passage, a few verses later, Paul says, “Let deacons (diakonos) be the husbands of one wife” ( 1 Timothy 3:12 ), and then he turns around without a blink and says to the believers in Rome, “I commend to you Phoebe our sister, who is a servant (diakonos) of the church” ( Romans 16:1 ). One very important and sound principle of responsible Bible study is as follows: “To understand doctrine, bring all the Scriptures together on the subject you wish to know, then...
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