>However, this "science related" question has encouraged me to ask
>another similar "science related" question. This one: Why did God
>give women brains which are just as capable of teaching the Bible to
>others as men's brains are, if He did not want women to teach the
Throughout the Bible, God tends to select poorly qualified agents.
He founds a nation through an elderly infertile couple and repeatedly
emphasizes their lack of inherent appeal or merit. The Corinthian
church members were predominantly not notable from a worldly
viewpoint. God's strength is shown in our weakness. Thus, requiring
elders to be male (assuming that is the correct interpretation of the
I Tim. passages, etc.) cannot be used to argue that men are
inherently any better for the job. In fact, it may reflect a greater
tendency for us to laziness.
An analogy may be seen in the differentiation among the Trinity, with
inherent equality but functional differences.
Dr. David Campbell
University of Alabama
Biodiversity & Systematics
Dept. Biological Sciences
Tuscaloosa, AL 35487 USA
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