GATES OF HELL SHALL NOT PRAVAIL

There is a clear attack on the bible. Even some Pentecostals are becoming ashamed of the gospel presented by Paul and are presenting another gospel. Ignorance is not a virtue, not an excuse.

The facts contended and attacked are also part of the Christian gospel. The bible says that if any one comes with another gospel let him be cursed.

The key point is that god’s revelation is rejected by man’s secular arguments, which are inspired by the false ideologies of feminism and false liberation views, which are opposed to the biblical view of salvation.

He simply fails to accept the inspiration and revelation of some of the new testament scriptures. The attack is specifically directed to apostle Paul whom god has specially used to systematically present the entire new testament teachings based on the old testament scriptures by a perfect synthesis of the two covenants. If the writings of Paul are questioned, then all of the scriptures can be questioned likewise by the same false logic, all the books of the bible can be rejected one by one.

RADICAL FEMINISM IS SUBVERTING THE CHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST FROM WITHIN. There is the aggressive feminist lesbian LGBTIQ agenda of destabilizing and destroying the Church through the ordination of even lesbians as pastors, bishops etc. THIS COULD BE AN ASPECT OF THE ABOMINATION OF DESOLATION STANDING IN THE HOLY PLACE, PREACHING PERVERTED WORD.

Even the traditionally conservative Pentecostal churches are also totally disturbed and devastated by the rude influx of the feminist ideas into the churches. Pentecostal leaders and women are also violating the Biblical norms regarding women speaking in the churches and the head covering of women in the church.

All those who argue against the Biblical position are victims of the left feminist liberal axis, a movement which in the west directly or indirectly, supports anti-Christian expansionist forces.

The contemporary pseudo apostles of women who are motivated by the godless secular ideologies of feminism, and demonic modern liberal theology which deny the authority of the word of God, have the same attitude which the Muslim apologists have about the Pauline theology and writings.

Feminism has potential to destroy nations and churches. There is connection between growing radical feminism in the churches, increasing number of lesbian pastors and bishops, explosion of sexual perversion in the world, etc. Importing the feminist views into the Church will destroy the Church. Taking feminism into the Church is the trick of using women to destroy the Churches.

Biblical teachings neither support feminism nor male chauvinism. Hence both these ideologies are harmful to the family as well as the Church. The first reason why women should not speak in the Church is the order of creation. The fact that eve was deceived by the devil is in some way related to the fact that women are not permitted to teach men and have authority over men in the Church.

The God-given order of authority roles is God - Christ- man- woman. 1 Corinthians 11:3 but I want you to know that the head of every man is Christ, the head of woman is man, and the head of Christ is God.It is wrong and sinful to misrepresent the idea of submission and man-woman roles obvious in the Bible pattern. Regarding the role of men and women in ministry, we can find a particular pattern throughout the Bible. Old Testament priests were all men. Jesus did not choose women as his apostles. This was in compliance with the role distinction for men and women established at creation. 

Apostle Peter considered the epistles of Paul as inspired Holy Scripture from God and warned destruction for critics. 2 Pet 3:16-17 as also in all [his] epistles, speaking in them of these things; wherein are some things hard to be understood, which the ignorant and unsteadfast wrest, as [they do] also the other scriptures, unto their own destruction. Ye therefore, beloved, knowing [these things] beforehand, beware lest, being carried away with the error of the wicked, ye fall from your own steadfastness.

FAILURE TO RIGHTLY DIVIDE THE WORD OF TRUTH IS THE COMMON FALLACY OF LIBERALS AND FEMINISTS. Head covering is a theological issue, and does not have sociological, cultural or historical derivations. Social change or behavioral patterns in advanced societies should not be considered as the criteria or norm for Church doctrines.

THERE IS SERIOUS METHODOLOGICAL ERROR IN ATTEMPTING TO IMPOSE OLD TESTAMENT EVENTS AS NORMATIVE CRITERIA FOR THE NEW TESTAMENT CHURCH.Women covering head and not speaking in the church are matters of the NT church order.

THE GOD GIVEN ORDER OF FEMALE SUBMISSION SHOULD NOT BE MISINTERPRETED AS MALE DOMINATION. Calling for the liberation from this imagined male domination is in fact and effect, a call for the destruction of the word of God, and the God-given order in the NT church.

The view that head covering is symbol of slavery, and hinders freedom of worship is wrong. Here what is given by God as a spiritual protection for the entire body of believers, is viewed and misrepresented as a token of eternal bondage. This is nothing but making the word of God of none effect, and open rebellion against God and his Word.

Motivated by the devil inspired radical feminism, they falsely believe that, they will get freedom if they come out of the protective circles of God’s commandments. Thus they end up in bondage. Thinking to be wise they became fools, as the word of God rightly stated.

The critics even fail to distinguish between the veil of the temple and veil of women. In the Church worship, we are called to display only the glory of Christ, not the glory and talents of man and women. Man is the glory of Christ. Woman is the glory of man. When woman covers her head, she is covering the glory of man.

Thus when woman is covering her head in the Church she is doing a great ministry, on behalf of all men also, of covering the glory of man, and thereby preparing the way for the revelation of the glory of God, in the midst of the believers. Hence head covering is a sign of dignity. Convenience is not the basis and criterion of truth. Feeling no guilt, feeling happy etc. are not the criteria of truth.

THE TRUE LIBERATION OF WOMEN AND MEN IS AT THE RESURRECTION WHEN ALL WILL BE REVEALED AS SONS OF GOD.In heaven men and women will be “like angels in heaven” might mean like  males because there is no female angel. No references in the Bible about the female saints in heaven as there are about males.

When there is no submission to God and his clear word, there is enough chance for the hardening of the heart, in an irreversible manner. And there will be an ever- increasing rebellion and disobedience to God, inevitably resulting in the gradual backsliding and the fall into apostasy. Every major argument of EC Samkutty, made in his Facebook posts, is refuted in every chapter of the book in the light of the word of God.

FALSE PROPHETS ARE RISING FROM WITHIN THE CHURCH AND ATTACK THE BIBLE TRUTH - BEWARE

EC Samkutty, an acknowledged Pentecostal, in his Facebook posts, starts with the questions - is it biblical for a lady to pray, sing, and worship god without covering her head? Is it proper for a lady to lead a prayer or to speak a sermon in a church? and goes on answering them in the affirmative, in much detail. The new testament canon is questioned. The whole Christian world is mocked. And has done great harm and damage to the credibility of the Pentecostal community, most of whom are intellectually incapable of confronting the onslaught emanating from his attack on the writings of Paul. This has in effect thrown the poor Pentecostal believers into the midst of feminist wolves. Jesus is the ultimate judge who has warned that, those who remove the word from his book, shall be removed from his book.

The argument that women need not cover their head in the church and that women should be allowed to teach and preach in the church, is an anti-god, anti-bible position, diametrically opposite to the biblical truth, close to apostasy. That is not a Christian position. And hence the Christians and especially the Pentecostals reject that position, stamping it out as mere feminist excreta.

About what is proper in the church of Jesus Christ, Jesus himself has revealed the rules through his apostles. When you adulterate those rules and make your own rules, you make your own club, but not the church of Jesus Christ.

BIBLE CLEARLY WARNS ABOUT COMING OF THE FALSE PROPHETS

ROM 16:17 Now I beseech you, brethren, mark them that are causing the divisions and occasions of stumbling, contrary to the doctrine which ye learned: and turn away from them. For they that are such serve not our Lord Christ, but their own belly; and by their smooth and fair speech they beguile the hearts of the innocent.

ACTS 20:28-30 Take heed unto yourselves, and to all the flock, in which the Holy Spirit hath made you bishops, to feed the church of the Lord which he purchased with his own blood. I know that after my departing grievous wolves shall enter in among you, not sparing the flock; and from among your own selves shall men arise, speaking perverse things, to draw away the disciples after them.

2 PET 2:1 But there arose false prophets also among the people, as among you also there shall be false teachers, who shall privily bring in destructive heresies, denying even the Master that bought them, bringing upon themselves swift destruction.

1 TIM 6:3-5 If any man teaches a different doctrine, and consented not to sound words, [even] the words of our Lord Jesus Christ, and to the doctrine which is according to godliness; he is puffed up, knowing nothing, but doting about questionings and disputes of words, whereof cometh envy, strife, railings, evil surmisings, wranglings of men corrupted in mind and bereft of the truth, supposing that godliness is a way of gain.

EMERGING GLOBAL ANTI-CHRISTIAN AXIS OF THE FEMINIST LEFT ALLIANCE

All those who argue against the biblical position are victims of the left feminist liberal axis, a movement which in the west directly or indirectly, supports Islamic expansionism. For example, just compare the similarities in the views of Muslim apologists and modern liberal theologians regarding the authenticity of the bible and deity of Jesus.

In the same manner the contemporary psedo-apostels of women are motivated by the godless secular ideologies of feminism, leftism, LGBTIQ etc. They even take the same attitude which the Muslim apologists have about the Pauline theology and the Pauline writings. Thus, they are more with the side of the non-Christian movements than with the Christian faith.

There is no limit to the irrational rationalizations of those who are inspired by the ungodly ideologies of leftist feminist movements. Such ones are capable of creating much havoc in the churches. But most of the victims and promoters might not be aware that they are serving the perverse ideologies. But if they make self-examination of their views and compare those with the ideologies of the anti-Christian groups they can realize that they are really standing in the other court and playing the game for the other team.

This is terrible and the Christian leaders and churches are so moronic that they fail to understand things at the right time. They realize the danger only when the entire edifice is collapsed. The blind is leading the blind. The leaders lead for thirty pieces of silver. Prophets prophesy for name and gain. Falsity and hypocrisy have become the order of the day. For details read Eze 23.

DANGER OF RADICAL FEMINISM

Moderate feminists understand feminism as an awareness of women’s oppression and exploitation at work, within the family and society, and the consequent subsequent conscious action to change the situation and uplift the life of women. Feminism questions the dominant structures, customs and traditions of the society, which feminists think as restricting the freedom of women.

FEMINIST THEOLOGY IS BOTH UNBIBLICAL AND ANTIBIBLICAL

Many so called Christian women have stopped believing traditional Christian faith and have begun articulating a faith manufactured by their own imaginations. They claim that their theology stems from the experience of being wounded. Feminist theologians consider those who interpret Bible literally as patriarchal theologians. Feminists use Bible to defend their views wherever possible. But they out rightly reject Biblical views which run against their views, they feel that the patriarchal theologies interpret the Bible literally and emphasize subordinations of women made by God at the time of creation because she was created second and out of Adam.    They felt the need for a different understanding of Bible which they call feminist scholarship charging that the masculine bias of Biblical interpretation was part of a deliberate plot against women.  Feminist theology is just an offshoot of feminism which felt the need to counteract the true Biblical interpretation. They consider true Biblical interpretation as oppressive and patriarchal.

FEMINISTS ATTACK PATRIARCHY

For feminists all over the world patriarchy is the most important analytical model. The struggle against patriarchy is the most common element of all kinds of feminism. 

FEMINISTS ATTACK THE BIBLE

Some feminists consider Bible as an irreparably patriarchal book. Often they give it up and leave the Christian church. They neither accept the Bible nor leave the Bible alone. But they started the narrow and inexperienced road of feminist biblical criticism which in effect is a subtle attack on the authority of the Bible. They reject the authority of Bible as word of God.

FEMINISTS HATE THE GOD OF THE BIBLE

http://www.jewsnews.co.il/2014/11/17

Feminists Shove Crucifixes Up Their Anuses to Express Their Hatred Toward G-d

Feminists went to the Vatican square where they shoved crucifixes into the anuses, to express their utter hatred for God. The three women pulled of their stunt on St. Peter’s Square, the enormous plaza located right in front of St. Peter’s Basilica in the Vatican City. Two of them had “Keep it Inside” scrawled across their backs, an apparent reference to their anger that the Pope’s activities extend beyond the tiny papal enclave in Rome.

The trio, decked out in nothing but black ankle boots, leather miniskirts, and flower garlands in their hair, dropped to all fours and began simulating a lewd act with the crucifixes. Police immediately swarmed on the women as bemused tourists snapped photographs. Covering the women’s bared breasts with coats, the cops dragged them off, with one of the women crying: “The pope is not a politician, god is not a magician.”

EMERGENCE OF GLOBAL FEMINIST MOVEMENT

ONE OF THE RESULTS OF THIS MOVEMENT IS TO INFLUENCE OUR CULTURE TO IGNORE THE FACT THAT THERE IS A DIFFERENCE IN THE ROLES OF MEN AND WOMEN.

THE "FIRST WAVE" OF FEMINISM

The feminist movement of the nineteenth century effectively began July 19-20,1848, at a women's convention that was held in the Wesleyan Methodist Chapel in Seneca Falls, New York.

Elizabeth Stanton wrote the "Declaration on Women's Rights. In 1852, Elizabeth Stanton and Susan B. Anthony started working together. 

The early feminists viewed the Bible to be degrading to women because of what it teaches concerning the sin of Eve and the role assigned to women in both the Old and New Testaments.

The moderate view agreed that the Bible is harmful to women if taken literally, but when understood according to its inner or mystical meaning it affirms the equality of women with men.

The liberal view accepted the theory of evolution to be the answer of culture and religion. It viewed the Bible as a purely human book which records the history of one of the world's many religious traditions, and which has no special divine authority.

The radical view agreed with the liberal understanding of the nature of the Bible as a purely human book with no divine authority, but it did not agree that it could simply be ignored. As long as large numbers of people still believe that it is God's inspired Word, they will believe that it provides a divinely given mandate to keep women in subjection. Hence they believe that the influence of the Bible must be neutralized. They believe that the Bible must be destroyed if women were to be free.

In order to neutralize the influence of the Bible, they wrote "The Woman's Bible".  It speaks many bad things about the Bible. The final statement in the Woman's Bible: "The real difficulty in woman's case is that the whole foundation of the Christian religion rests on her temptation and man's fall, hence the necessity of a Redeemer and a plan of salvation. As the chief cause of this dire calamity, woman's degradation and subordination were made a necessity. If, however, we accept the Darwinian theory, that the race has been a gradual growth from the lower to a higher form of life, and that the story of the fall is a myth, we can exonerate the snake, emancipate the woman, and reconstruct a more rational religion for the nineteenth century, and thus escape all the perplexities of the Jewish mythology as of no more importance than those of the Greek, Persian and Egyptian" (Elizabeth Stanton, The Woman's Bible)

BUT THE FACT IS THAT THE BIBLE DOES NOT HOLD EVE RESPONSIBLE. IN ADAM ALL DIE 1COR. 15:22. AS THE HEAD, THE MAN IS HELD RESPONSIBLE FOR THE FALL.

THE "SECOND WAVE" OF FEMINISM

The next push for feminism began in 1960's and continues strong into the 1990's. Two of the most influential leaders of this new movement are Betty Friedan and Gloria Steinem. Betty Friedan published the book, "The Feminine Mystique", in 1963. She was also a signer of the Humanist Manifesto II in 1973. The manifesto says:

"We affirm that moral values derive their source from human experience. Ethics is autonomous and situational, needing no theological or ideological sanction."

"In the area of sexuality, we believe that intolerant attitudes, often cultivated by orthodox religions and puritanical cultures, unduly repress sexual conduct. The right to birth control, abortion, and divorce should be recognized."

FEMINISM HAS THE POTENTIAL TO DESTROY NATIONS AND CHURCHES

IMPORTING FEMINIST VIEWS INTO THE CHURCH WILL DESTROY THE CHURCH. TAKING FEMINISM INTO THE CHURCH IS THE TRICK OF USING WOMEN TO DESTROY THE CHURCHES.

The women's liberation movement, is the product of women who reject the divine origin and absolute authority of the Bible, and usually the very existence of the God who reveals Himself in the Bible. Not all feminists follow the extreme ideas as many of the leaders. Some have tried to blend the goals of feminism (elimination of the roles of the sexes) with the Bible. This will not succeed.

FEMINISM AND THE GROWTH OF THE WOMEN’S INDEPENDENCE REDUCED BIRHT RATE IN THE WEST CAUSING DEMOGRAPHIC IMBALANCES. SWEDEN HAS CONCEDED DEFEAT WITHOUT WAR. GODLESS SOCIALISM AND FEMINISM SHOWED THE WAY, THROUGH THE SMOKESCREEN OF THESE DECEPTIVE IDEOLOGIES. IF NATIONS CAN BE DESTROYED BY FALSE IDEOLOGIES, WITHOUT GUNS AND BOMBS, CHURCHES WILL EASILY FALL ONE BY ONE.

FEMINISM AND LGBTIQ MOVEMENTS HELP EACH OTHER

THERE IS A GROWING TREND OF FEMINISM AND THE SPIRIT OF TRANSGENDERISM IN THE CHURCH. THEY HELP EACH OTHER TO GROW. THERE IS A SAYING – FEMINISM IS THE THEORY AND LESBIANISM IS THE PRACTICE. THIS TREND IS ACCENTUATED IN CHURCHES WHERE THE PRACTICES OF WOMEN SPEAKING IN CHURCH AND NOT COVERING HEAD, ARE WIDESPREAD.

WOMEN NOT COVERING HEAD, AND PREACHING AND SPEAKING IN THE CHURCHES WITHOUT KEEPING QUIET, IN VIOLATION OF THE WORD OF GOD, OPENS WAY TO THE EXPLOSIVE GROWTH OF THE FEMINISM AND THE LGBT LESBIAN HOMOSEXUAL MOVEMENT. THE DEMONS OF HOMOSEXUALITY AND TRANSGENDERISM WILL ENTER THE CHURCH FREELY AND CREATE UNPRECEDENTED DISORDER.

LET WOMEN BE WOMEN AND MEN BE MEN. THEY ARE EQUAL BUT DIFFERENT. ATTEMPT TO UNDO THE DIFFERENCES IS THE SAME SPIRIT OF TRANSGENDERISM.The Bible teaches that God made men and women equal. As long as we recognize that both are in the image of God, both have dominion over the earth, and both share in the inheritance in Christ, there is no conflict. But, as the feminists want to eliminate all roles the Bible give for men and women, there can be no reconciliation between feminism and the Bible.

FEMINISM INCREASES THE NUMBER OF LESBIAN PASTORS AND BISHOPS

FEMINISM IN THE CHURCH – THE INFULUENCE AND INFILTRATION OF FEMINIST VALUES INTO CHURCH ADMINISTRATION

Feminism demands the church to alter the traditional Biblical Theology, language and church structures. They feel that women should not be kept away from various ministerial roles in the church administration on the basis of gender differences. They demand that they be ordained as Pastors, Priests and Bishops etc.

EVA BRUNNE - FIRST LESBIAN BISHOP IN SWEDEN - WORLD’S FIRST LESBIAN BISHOP CALLS FOR CHURCH TO REMOVE CROSSES, TO INSTALL MUSLIM PRAYER SPACE.The Bishop of Stockholm has proposed a church in her diocese remove all signs of the cross and put down markings showing the direction to Mecca for the benefit of Muslim worshippers. Eva Brunne, who was made the world’s first openly lesbian bishop by the church of Sweden in 2009, and has a young son with her wife and fellow lesbian priest Gunilla Linden, made the suggestion to make those of other faiths more welcome. (SOURCE - BREITBART.COM)

REV. KAREN OLIVETO an openly lesbian senior pastor of San Francisco’s Glide Memorial Church has been elected a bishop of the United Methodist Church, which raises concerns among the church’s leadership, according to officials with Glide and the United Methodist Council of Bishops. “This is a major victory for humanity!” Glide’s co-founder and Minister of Liberation Rev. Cecil Williams said in a statement. (BAY CITY NEWS SERVICE | Mercury News July 18, 2016 at 1:08 am).

REV. MARIA SWEARINGEN AND REV. SALLY SARRATT - MARRIED LESBIAN CO-PASTORS CALVARY BAPTIST CHURCH.

Rev. Maria Swearingen preached about her belief that black lives, “queer lives” and immigrant lives matter. Swearingen stood in the pulpit for the first time as the lesbian co-pastor of Calvary Baptist Church, her wife and fellow co-pastor, the Rev. Sally Sarratt, smiling over her left shoulder as they began their new joint roles. The arrival of Swearingen, 31, and Sarratt, 42, is not a first for American churches, but experts say it’s rare in Baptist life. (Pullen Memorial Baptist Church in Raleigh, N.C., has a married lesbian senior pastor but she and her wife do not co-pastor the church.) Conservative Christians have criticized the couple’s arrival at the historic church near Washington’s colorful Chinatown gate, while progressives have cheered it.

Troy Perry, founder of the LGBT-friendly METROPOLITAN COMMUNITY CHURCHES called their appointment “utterly unprecedented and historical,” especially in Baptist churches. Leaders of his denomination, where a majority of the clergy are gay or lesbian, say at least one married lesbian co-pastor couple in the MCC dates to the 1990s.

Southern Baptist Theological Seminary President R. Albert Mohler said in a podcast that the joint appointment reflects the “trajectory of American Protestant liberalism.” He suggested the church should be dis-fellowshipped from the District of Columbia Baptist Convention, an association with which the church and the Southern Baptist Convention are aligned.

THE ABOMINATION OF DESOLATION STANDING IN THE HOLY PLACE

THROUGH THE PSEUDO IDEOLOGIES OF FEMINISM, LGBTIQ ETC WHICH ARE INFILTRATING INTO THE CHURCH, THROUGH PSEUDO SPIRITUAL INDIVUDALS AND PSEUDO ACADEMICIANS WHO ARE MOTIVATED AND INSPIRED BY THE DEMONIC MODERN LIBERAL THEOLOGY WHICH DENY THE AUTHORITY OF THE WORD OF GOD.

PROMOTING THE IDEAS OF WOMEN NOT COVERING THE HEAD AND WOMEN SPEAKING IN THE CHURCHES, ORDINATION OF LESBIAN WOMEN AND HOMOSEXUALS AS PASTORS PRIEST AND BISHOPS IS PART OF THE MOVEMENT PROMOTED BY THE FORCES OF THE ABOMINATION OF DESOLATION STANDING IN THE HOLY PLACE, PREACHING PERVERTED WORD.

BIBLE PASSAGES THE FEMINISTS MISINTERPRET TO BECOME PASTORS AND BISHOPS

THE FEMINISTS OFTEN MISINTERPRET SOME BIBLE PASSAGES TO JUSTIFY THE WOMEN PREACHERS AND THEIR ORDINATION AS PASTORS, PRIESTS AND BISHOPS.

The most common is Galatians 3:28. Galatians 3:28-29 There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free, there is neither male nor female; for you are all one in Christ Jesus. And if you are Christ's, then you are Abraham's seed, and heirs according to the promise. The point of Galatians 3:28 is that all now receive the inheritance if they are in Christ. But a man is still a man and a woman is still a woman. That cannot change. Paul is not teaching the elimination of roles of men and women in the context. He is teaching that both receive the inheritance in Christ.

In 1 Peter 3, Peter teaches a difference in the roles of men and women, but in the context teaches the same thing as Paul. 1 Peter 3:1-7 Wives, likewise, be submissive to your own husbands... as Sarah obeyed Abraham, calling him lord, whose daughters you are if you do good and are not afraid with any terror. Husbands, likewise, dwell with them with understanding, giving honor to the wife, as to the weaker vessel, and as being heirs together of the grace of life, that your prayers may not be hindered.

Galatians 3:13 Christ has redeemed us from the curse of the law, having become a curse for us (for it is written, "Cursed is everyone who hangs on a tree"). They argue that Christ redeemed us from the curse, and since woman was cursed with subjection in Genesis 3:16, she is no longer under subjection since she has been redeemed from the curse. The curse we have been redeemed from is in Galatians 3:10. For as many as are of the works of the law are under the curse; for it is written, "Cursed is everyone who does not continue in all things which are written in the book of the law, to do them." The curse of the Law is that, if you do not obey the Law completely, there is condemnation. The Law requires perfection, and since no one is perfect, all are cursed by the Law. Christ redeemed us from this curse of the Law, not from the consequences of sin given in Genesis 3.

THE CURSES OF GENESIS ARE STILL OPERATIVE TO ALL. Genesis 3:16-19. To the woman He said: "I will greatly multiply your sorrow and your conception; in pain you shall bring forth children; Your desire shall be for your husband, and he shall rule over you." Then to Adam He said, "Because you have heeded the voice of your wife, and have eaten from the tree of which I commanded you, saying, 'You shall not eat of it': "Cursed is the ground for your sake; in toil you shall eat of it all the days of your life. Both thorns and thistles it shall bring forth for you, and you shall eat the herb of the field. In the sweat of your face you shall eat bread till you return to the ground, for out of it you were taken; for dust you are, and to dust you shall return."

The feminists claim that Ephesians 5:21 (submitting to one another in the fear of God), teaches a mutual submitting of the husband and wife to each other, and that they are to submit equally to each other in the same way. Here also they deviate from the focus point. There are six passages in the N.T. that teaches either wives are to submit to their husbands, or that there is a general submission of women to men. 1 Corinthians 14:34 Let your women keep silent in the churches, for they are not permitted to speak; but they are to be submissive, as the law also says. Ephesians 5:22-24 Wives, submit to your own husbands, as to the Lord... 24 Therefore, just as the church is subject to Christ, so let the wives be to their own husbands in everything. Colossians 3:18 Wives, submit to your own husbands, as is fitting in the Lord. 1 Timothy 2:11-12 Let a woman learn in silence with all submission. And I do not permit a woman to teach or to have authority over a man, but to be in silence. Titus 2:3-5 The older women... admonish the young women to love their husbands, to love their children, to be discreet, chaste, homemakers, good, obedient to their own husbands, that the word of God may not be blasphemed. 1 Peter 3:1, 5 Wives, likewise, be submissive to your own husbands, that even if some do not obey the word, they, without a word, may be won by the conduct of their wives... For in this manner, in former times, the holy women who trusted in God also adorned themselves, being submissive to their own husbands. THE HUSBAND IS NEVER TOLD TO SUBMIT TO HIS WIFE, NOR IS THERE ANY PASSAGE THAT INDICATES THAT THIS IS THE RELATIONSHIP OF MEN TO WOMEN IN GENERAL.When Ephesians 5:21 says "submitting to one another in the fear of God", feminists assume that this teaching is an absolute equality of submission to one another for everyone.

JESUS AND THE CHURCH - EPHESIANS 5:22-33 THIS ONE IS THE MOST IMPORTANT BECAUSE IT IS THE MODEL FOR THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THE HUSBAND AND WIFE. THE WIFE IS TOLD TO SUBMIT TO HER HUSBAND "AS THE CHURCH IS SUBJECT TO CHRIST". (5:24). FOR THE FEMINISTS THEORY OF MUTUAL SUBMISSION TO BE TRUE, THEN JESUS MUST BE IN SUBMISSION TO THE CHURCH. Ephesians 5:21 is not teaching a mutual submission in which both parties submit to one another in the manner the feminists claim.

ALL THE POSSIBLE ARGUMENTS OF FEMINISTS ARE BASELESS

ALL THE POSSIBLE ARGUMENTS OF THE FEMINISTS IN FAVOR OF WOMEN PREACHING IN THE CHURCH AND THE WOMEN NOT USING HEAD COVERING IN THE CHURCH ARE FALSE AND BASELESS. LET US EXAMINE A FEW:

1. IF A WOMAN IS LITERALLY FORBIDDEN TO SPEAK AT ALL, HOW CAN SHE SING? Eph 5:19 - Speaking to one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody in your heart to the Lord. THIS NEED NOT NECESSARILY BE IN THE CHURCH ALONE.

2. HOW COULD SHE CONFESS CHRIST BEFORE THE ASSEMBLY PRIOR TO HER BAPTISM?Rom 10:9-10 - If you confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus and believe in your heart that God has raised Him from the dead, you will be saved. For with the heart one believes unto righteousness, and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation. THIS ALSO NEED NOT NECESSARILY BE IN THE CHURCH, AND CAN EVEN BE IN THE FELLOWSHIP OF WOMEN.

3. HOW COULD A WOMAN CONFESS HER PUBLIC SINS?1 John 1:9 = If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. THIS ALSO NEED NOT NECESSARILY BE IN THE CHURCH, AND CAN EVEN BE IN THE FELLOWSHIP OF WOMEN.

4. HOW COULD A WOMAN TELL HER CHILDREN TO BE QUIET? THE RESTRICTIONS ARE IN RELATION TO THE CHURCH, IN THE CHURCH, TO THE CHURCH.

5. HOW COULD SHE SAY "AMEN" AT THE CLOSE OF A PRAYER?1Cor 14:15-16   What is the conclusion then? I will pray with the spirit, and I will also pray with the understanding. I will sing with the spirit, and I will also sing with the understanding. Otherwise, if you bless with the spirit, how will he who occupies the place of the uninformed say "Amen" at your giving of thanks, since he does not understand what you say? (SAYING AMEN IS NOT A DISCOURSE AND IT NEED NOT BE ALWAYS LOUD).

6. IF WOMEN COULD SAY "AMEN" IN THE ASSEMBLY UNDER THE LAW, THERE IS NO REASON TO FORBID IT TODAY.Nehemiah 8:2-6 - Then all the people answered, "Amen, Amen!" while lifting up their hands. And they bowed their heads and worshipped the Lord with their faces to the ground. (IT IS FALSELY ASSUMED THAT ALL THE PEOPLE IN THAT CONTEXT INCLUDED WOMEN ALSO. AND EVEN IF WOMEN WERE INCLUDED, AND CONSENTED IN AMEN, THE WOMEN NEED NOT NECESSARILY SHOUT LOUD AS MEN DID. MOREOVER, OT NORMS SHOULD NOT ASSUMED TO TBE THE NT NORMS FOR THE CHURCH).

7. PAUL IS REFERRING TO A PROBLEM IN CORINTH. HE IS NOT SPEAKING TO ALL WOMEN IN 1 COR. 14:35. (THE LETTER AND THE ISSUE ARE CLEARLY ADDRESSED TO ALL CHURCHES AND SAINTS)

BEWARE OF THE CARRIERS OF THE FEMINIST VIRUSES INTO THE CHURCHES

FEMINISM WHICH IS A SECULAR IDEOLOGY WITH CLEAR ANTI-CHRISTIAN TWIST, IS INFILTRATING INTO THE CHURCH. Biblical teachings neither support feminism nor male chauvinism. Hence both these ideologies are harmful to the family as well as the church. Women assuming those functions in the church which are ordained by the Word of God to be performed by certain eligible men only, is not a ‘stand against male chauvinism’ but calculated conspiracy against the Word of God.

Ministry in the church should not be degraded to the level of scoring points against individuals and ideologies. Ministry is not dependent of authority and positions. Women can do ministry in various other ways. But unfortunately the focus of the feminists is not exactly the preaching of the Gospel of Jesus Christ, but reversing the roles and projecting themselves as ordained and self-proclaimed ‘role models’.

The primary mission of the Disciples of Christ is to preach and teach His message. Though ‘serving the poor and needy’ are also part of it, ministry cannot end up as a value free social service enterprise.