Final Version Christianity blog

submitted by Cornfed from (self.Christianity)

sorted by:
top
newinsightfulfun
you are viewing a single comment's thread.

view the rest of the comments →

[–]Vulptex 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (8 children)

It is quite simple. If one supports female priests and female leadership, one is not a Christian.

Huh, TIL Jesus and Paul weren't Christians.

[–]Cornfed[S] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (7 children)

What are you talking about?

[–]Vulptex 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (6 children)

If one supports female priests and female leadership, one is not a Christian; Jesus had just as many female disciples as male disciples, and Paul supported a woman as an apostle and another as a deacon, therefore they are not Christians.

[–]Cornfed[S] 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (5 children)

Those female supporters were not leaders or priests. Paul was explicit about not having female priests.

[–]Vulptex 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (4 children)

What are apostles and deacons, if not some kind of leader or teacher?

Also, Paul didn't say anything about not having female priests, unless you count what are almost certainly 2nd-century forgeries by the Catholic Church. Nor is Paul the decision-maker regardless of what he might have thought.

[–]Cornfed[S] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

The females you are referring to were, if not some kind of leader or priest, not some kind of leader or priest.

[–]Vulptex 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (2 children)

So are you saying even apostles don't teach others? That's kinda their job.

There wasn't any such thing as a "priest" in New Testament times either.

[–]Cornfed[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

There is a difference between helping out in various ways and being leaders and priests. Paul was clear on this. See for example 1 Corinthians 14:33-35 and 1 Timothy 2.

[–]Vulptex 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

I think Paul meant what he said, regardless of pseudo-Paul not liking it and inserting the verses you're referring to into his epistles.