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  • Hard Teaching – 1 Timothy 2

    Hard Teaching – 1 Timothy 2

    Part 6 of My Gender Role Journey             How can we understand hard passages in the Bible? I mentioned previously that I was taught that egalitarians didn’t believe in the authority of the Bible, and they just threw out the verses that didn’t align with their viewpoint. As I started hearing from actual egalitarians, I…

  • Your Interpretation of the Bible is not Inerrant

    Your Interpretation of the Bible is not Inerrant

    Part 4 of My Gender Role Journey Another topic in Theology 1 that impacted my understanding of gender roles was the Doctrine of Scripture. I dove into 350 pages of reading and hours of lectures covering the diverse theories of how God revealed himself in the world and what scripture is. I had always heard…

  • Why Do Complementarians Ignore Phoebe?

    Why Do Complementarians Ignore Phoebe?

    Part 2 of My Gender Role Journey For my first seminary class, I chose “Exploring the New Testament.” The course incorporated the historical context of the New Testament world and the intertestamental period. I learned about the origins of Hanukkah, the creation of the Septuagint, and how the rise and fall of four kingdoms fulfilled…

  • Ἀδελφοί

    Ἀδελφοί

    I had always been one of those eager students in women’s Bible study who flipped open a concordance after class to see the original words and how they were used in other verses. Unlike some, I enjoyed when preachers shared insights about Greek or Hebrew words. It seemed like they held the key to unlocking…