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Thoughts on Elders - pronouns and tradition

Let me first start by saying that the only skin I have in this particular game is that I love to pick away at threads where I feel that patriarchal systems have sought to supress and 'keep women in their place' through an interpretation of the scriptures. I don't personally want to be an elder, nor do I think I necessarily fulfil all the requirements regardless. I do however believe that the church family and wider church is poorer for this prohibition and that is my motivation for this whole blog really.  That off my chest, for this post I wanted to put down in writing some of my thoughts on this so far. Also, they are just that, my thoughts so far and for this post I've landed on 'pronouns' and 'tradition'. I've come on a journey from a complementarian stance to a mutualist/egalitarian stance and I hope I am still learning and developing all the time. I've talked to MANY people about this and funnily enough it was a recent discussion about the ...
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Thoughts on Elders - "For Adam was formed first, then Eve"

I'm back with more (personal!) thoughts on Elders. This time about 1 Tim 2:13 "For Adam was formed first, then Eve". See my previous post here focusing on 'Pronouns and Traditions'  based on 1 Tim 3:1-12. I think for some who have a complementarian stance, the linguistics of the passage in 1 Tim 3:1-12 are not so relevant an argument, it's more about what they see as the original principles of male headship, ergo male only elders. So if you truly believe that male headship is correct, then of course the linguistics of chapter 3 are irrelevant because you'd only see the explicit language as confirming the male bias. So headship. First up two things, I think it's interesting that male headship is not mentioned until Ephesians 5:23 (when Paul first used the term 'kephale'). I also think it's interesting that Jesus didn't mention headship at all and when he did talk about marriage, he said it in the context of the Eden blueprint of a husban...
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Day 10 of #16days - Two wrongs don't make a right

We've finally arrived at the end of Judges and unfortunately have one final horrific episode to confront before moving on.  After the rape and murder of the unnamed concubine by the Benjaminites, the leaders of Israel went to war against them and killed all but 600 men. They also vowed to not allow the Benjaminite men to marry their own daughters. However they THEN decided that as God had instituted the twelve tribes of Israel,  they shouldn't allow the tribe of Benjamin to die out. So they hatched a plan to get them wives. There was a town named Jabesh-Gilead whose inhabitants hadn't come out against Benjamin. So they attacked the town, murdering every man, married woman and child, leaving 400 virgins who they 'gave' to the Benjaminite men. This still wasn't enough wives so they then kidnapped 200 more women from the town of Shiloh during a feasting day, ambushing them at night, later gaslighting the Shiloh townspeople into not retaliating.  At this point Israe...
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