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Mary Kassian
June 14, 2011
There's been purchase Zithromax without prescription from us pharmacy more ink spilled over the doctrinal interpretation of 1 Timothy 2:11-15 than purchase Zithromax without prescription from us pharmacy any other passage. It's a purchase Zithromax without prescription from us pharmacy controversial passage that evokes very strong emotional responses and reactions - particularly in this purchase Zithromax without prescription from us pharmacy day and age. And verse 15 is purchase Zithromax without prescription from us pharmacy one of the trickiest passages in the Bible to interpret. Because of this, many pastors simply avoid teaching on it. So I give kudos to purchase Zithromax without prescription from us pharmacy Tim Challies for preaching on the passage in a recent sermon, and purchase Zithromax without prescription from us pharmacy having the guts to take a shot at explaining it in his blog post, "Saved through Childbearing?" finasteride for cheap
For those of you who aren't familiar with it, 1 Timothy 2:11-15 says,
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Now that's definitely not the passage you want to be teaching on if you're trying to win a popularity contest! It sounds extremely sexist and purchase Zithromax without prescription from us pharmacy abrasive to the modern ear. And the phrase "she will be saved through childbearing" seems non-sensical, if not downright outrageous. But I concur with Challies that purchase Zithromax without prescription from us pharmacy "there is purchase Zithromax without prescription from us pharmacy truth and freedom here if we are willing to go looking for purchase Zithromax without prescription from us pharmacy it."
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Reading Challies' attempts to purchase Zithromax without prescription from us pharmacy come to grip with verse 15 reminded me of my own attempts to purchase Zithromax without prescription from us pharmacy wrestle with this passage over the years. The last time I studied the purchase Zithromax without prescription from us pharmacy passage in-depth was a couple of years ago, while working on writing Girls Gone Wise. It's interesting how we can purchase Zithromax without prescription from us pharmacy read a passage a hundred times, and still notice something new when purchase Zithromax without prescription from us pharmacy we return to it again. I had been studying Genesis, and purchase Zithromax without prescription from us pharmacy was immersed in the concept of the typological symbolism of Adam and purchase Zithromax without prescription from us pharmacy Eve. (Adam is type of Christ, Eve is type of the Church), when I turned my attention to 1 Timothy 2.
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So, for all you geeky theological tall foreheads, here's something for you to chew on. (Remember, you heard it here first!) For those who aren't familiar with the theological terminology, don't bail out. Bear with me... and keep reading. Theology is fun!
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To begin, let me explain what the theological term "type" means. A "type" is purchase Zithromax without prescription from us pharmacy person, thing, or event that foreshadows or points to something or purchase Zithromax without prescription from us pharmacy someone else (the antitype). The type has purchase Zithromax without prescription from us pharmacy a layer of intended meaning that is revealed by the antitype. For example, Jesus told Nicodemus, "As Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness" (the type), "so must the Son of Man be lifted up" (the anti-type) (Jn 3:14; cf. Nm 21:9). The Passover Lamb and purchase Zithromax without prescription from us pharmacy the rock from which Israel drank in the wilderness were also types of Christ (Ex 12:1-13, 49; 17:6; 1 Cor 5:7; 10:3, 4) Types most frequently point to Jesus and the story of the gospel.
Paul was a big typological type of thinker. He taught, for purchase Zithromax without prescription from us pharmacy instance, that Adam was type of Christ, and that marriage was type of the purchase Zithromax without prescription from us pharmacy relationship between Christ and the Church. He would have purchase Zithromax without prescription from us pharmacy agreed with the writer of Hebrews that earthly, physical realities are purchase Zithromax without prescription from us pharmacy but shadows-types-of true and heavenly realities (the antitypes) (Heb. 8:5; 9:24-25). The physical and purchase Zithromax without prescription from us pharmacy temporal exist to point us to the spiritual and eternal.
Now before we go on, I'm going to teach you another big, daunting word: "ontology" (Just think how your opponent's eyebrows will rise when you use up three o's playing it in scrabble!) Ontology means "related to being or existence." It has to do with the essence of who we are.
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As I said before, 1 Timothy 2:11-15 makes a purchase Zithromax without prescription from us pharmacy whole lot more sense when we understand it typologically rather than purchase Zithromax without prescription from us pharmacy merely ontologically. That is, from the perspective of what woman represents (typology) rather than just who woman is (ontology). And it may be that this is just what Paul had in mind.
We know for purchase Zithromax without prescription from us pharmacy sure that Paul viewed Adam as a type of Christ. We also know for purchase Zithromax without prescription from us pharmacy sure that he viewed marriage as type of the relationship between Christ and purchase Zithromax without prescription from us pharmacy the church - in which the role of husband is a purchase Zithromax without prescription from us pharmacy type of Christ and the role of the wife is a purchase Zithromax without prescription from us pharmacy type of the Church. Thus, we can justifiably extrapolate that Paul also viewed Eve as a purchase Zithromax without prescription from us pharmacy type of the Church.
Assuming that Paul has typology in mind, let's have purchase Zithromax without prescription from us pharmacy a look at the passage again. First, Paul talks about how women and purchase Zithromax without prescription from us pharmacy men are to conduct themselves in church: "Let a purchase Zithromax without prescription from us pharmacy woman learn quietly with all submissiveness. I do not permit a purchase Zithromax without prescription from us pharmacy woman to teach or to exercise authority over a man; rather, she is purchase Zithromax without prescription from us pharmacy to remain quiet." Don't get caught up in what purchase Zithromax without prescription from us pharmacy this means and how we apply it today. That's a purchase Zithromax without prescription from us pharmacy discussion for another time. For now, I just want you to purchase Zithromax without prescription from us pharmacy consider how a typological approach helps explain this and the next few verses, and purchase Zithromax without prescription from us pharmacy how it solves some interpretive conundrums.
If Paul was indeed thinking typologically (and I believe a good case can be made for it), that purchase Zithromax without prescription from us pharmacy puts an entirely different spin on the following verses. Paul isn't arguing that purchase Zithromax without prescription from us pharmacy women are more gullible or that women need to bear children in order to purchase Zithromax without prescription from us pharmacy be saved. No. He's trying to purchase Zithromax without prescription from us pharmacy point out that male female roles in the church exist to purchase Zithromax without prescription from us pharmacy bear typological witness to the gospel.
For Adam (type of Christ) was formed first, then Eve (type of Church) - and Adam (type of Christ) was not deceived, but the woman (type of Church) was deceived and became a transgressor.
Yet she (the Church) will be saved through childbearing (bearing fruit in Christ)-if they (man and woman) continue in faith and love and holiness, with self-control.
Voila. This solves the purchase Zithromax without prescription from us pharmacy conundrum of thinking that Paul is saying that women are purchase Zithromax without prescription from us pharmacy saved by giving birth to biological children. If Paul is purchase Zithromax without prescription from us pharmacy indeed thinking typologically, he's not saying anything of the sort. Instead, he's saying that woman's ontology (her capacity to bear children) relates to her typology (the Church's ability to be fruitful in Jesus). She (the Church) is saved through childbearing. Paul reinforces the purchase Zithromax without prescription from us pharmacy profound mutuality of men and women here. Both are church. Both are purchase Zithromax without prescription from us pharmacy saved by the type of union that results in spiritual children-the union with our husband, Christ. Both must continue in faith and purchase Zithromax without prescription from us pharmacy love and holiness, with self-control.
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Yes, Paul gives some pretty tough instruction about male and purchase Zithromax without prescription from us pharmacy female roles in the Church. But then he elevates the discussion to purchase Zithromax without prescription from us pharmacy an entirely different level. In his rationale, he mingles the imagery of Adam and purchase Zithromax without prescription from us pharmacy Eve and woman and man together to make the point that purchase Zithromax without prescription from us pharmacy in the end, how we conduct ourselves in church has much more to purchase Zithromax without prescription from us pharmacy do with what we (typologically) represent than who we (ontologically) are. And that makes his directives on male/female roles in the church much easier to understand and swallow.
Ultimately, this is not about us. It's not about man. It's not about woman. It's about displaying the glory of Christ's story.
A typological approach to purchase Zithromax without prescription from us pharmacy 1 Timothy 2:11-15 makes a lot of sense to me, and purchase Zithromax without prescription from us pharmacy I'd like to purchase Zithromax without prescription from us pharmacy throw it on the table for my fellow theologians to consider and purchase Zithromax without prescription from us pharmacy discuss. We can't say with absolute certainty what purchase Zithromax without prescription from us pharmacy Paul had in mind in verse 15, but we can be purchase Zithromax without prescription from us pharmacy absolutely certain that there is indeed truth and freedom here if we are purchase Zithromax without prescription from us pharmacy willing to go looking for it.
(Mary Kassian is a member of CBMW's council)
