Thinking to Believe

Topics covered: 1. Why Christianity is not about "being nice" 2. Why the temporary insanity plea is nonsense 3. Identifying and stopping gossip Web: ThinkingtoBelieve.com Email: ThinkingToBelieve@gmail.com Facebook...

It's the final episode of my Answering God's Critics series. I address three objections: 1. We are both atheists. I just believe in one less god than you. 2. Belief in God is akin to belief in Santa Clause. 3. There are...

The final episode in my sub-series on the question of women pastors and teachers! I address two final objections (women cannot receive the gift of teaching & Joel prophesied that women would be preachers) before...

Was Junia a male or female, and was this person just well-known to the apostles, or a noteworthy apostle? I argue that Junia is a female, but not an apostle (and if she was an apostle, she is only an apostle in the...

Was Phoebe a deacon, and if so, does that inveigh against Complementarianism? I argue that Phoebe was a deacon, and that women can be deacons, but this has nothing to do with whether women can be...

Does the Bible teach male headship? Yes. I examine Genesis 3:16 where God told Eve "your desire will be to your husband, and he will rule over you." I argue that it refers to the woman's desire to exercise authority...

Does the Bible teach male headship? Yes. I examine Genesis 3:16 where God told Eve "your desire will be to your husband, and he will rule over you." I argue that it refers to the woman's desire to exercise authority...

I explore the last two possible interpretations of 1 Cor 14:34-35, namely the view that Paul is prohibiting women from engaging in theological discussion/debate in the church, and the view that Paul is prohibiting women...

I explored two more possible interpretations of 1 Cor 14:34-35: (1) the cultural/circumstantial view; (2) the absolute silence view. I argued that the cultural/circumstantial views cannot explain all that we see in the...

After dealing with possible understandings of Paul's reference to "the Law," I examined two interpretations of 1 Cor 14:34-35: (1) The interpolation view which holds that these verses are not Pauline, but were added to...

Did an extended recap of what I covered for 1 Tim 2, and then began my discussion of 1 Cor 14:33-35. I concluded: 1. Paul's teaching pertains to public worship. 2. "As in all the churches of the saints" in 33b is the...

I focus on Paul's second reason for prohibiting a woman from teaching or exercising authority over a man, namely the fact that it was Eve - not Adam - who was deceived by the devil. While Eve was the first to sinn, Adam...

I examine 1 Tim 2:13, where Paul provides his first reason for permitting women from teaching or exercising authority over males, namely creation order. Man was created first, then Eve, and thus Eve was created in a...

I explore the two things Paul did not prohibit women from doing in 1 Tim 2:12 - teaching and exercising authority. I show why the egalitarian claim that "exercise authority" is talking about an abuse of authority is...

I begin my examination of the most important NT text on this topic: 1 Tim 2:11-14. I look at the meaning of "silence" and "subjection" in verse 11, and then start my exegesis of verse 12 by exploring two things: (1)...