Comments for Why believe in women's ordination? at http://pres-outlook.net , comment 1 to 7 out of 7 comments http://pres-outlook.net Sun, 12 Oct 2008 18:53:11 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.3 http://pres-outlook.net/opinion/editorials/4728.html#comment-3631 Beleive. Womens ordenation is about beleiver or not? You support your ideas about women ordination with your ideas, I don't beleive in women ordination, and I support my ideas with my ideas. Where are we going, nowhere. I beleive God give every man and Woman a rol, a task, to do in this life. There is a clear reference on the Bible about womens don't work Preaching. I beleive they (Women) have a lot of work to do teaching not as minister, not as pastor, but as woman of faith. Ordinance Most of the time is about power, If I have support from 'MY grup' and I want ordeinance Elders, Diacons and Pastors women, I do. If not. I don't. What happen, Men don't do their job. - Hector Ramos Sun, 11 Nov 2007 12:00:00 +0100 http://pres-outlook.net/opinion/editorials/4728.html#comment-3298 Your article on Presbyweb, 'Why believe in women's ordination' is stated well. You and I must be reading the same book: 'How to Read the Bible for All its Worth' by Fee and Stuart. At least we have the same understanding on how to interpret the Bible. - Claude Voils Tue, 15 May 2007 12:00:00 +0100 http://pres-outlook.net/opinion/editorials/4728.html#comment-3291 I thoroughly enjoy these types of articles. I merely send this brief note as an encouragement to you: keep writing them! Brief articles that affirm theological positions within our denomination inspire me to do likewise with our congregation from time to time. Thanks for mixing these thoughts into the larger pool of articles and papers. - Bryan Stamper Fri, 11 May 2007 12:00:00 +0100 http://pres-outlook.net/opinion/editorials/4728.html#comment-3284 I do agree that the ordination of women is finally a given, as was the case in the early Christian church. I also agree that we should always question anything that anyone states is a 'given.' We should not fear questioning or doubt, of this or any question. The intention is not to advocate regressing, although there are many denominations who have not yet concurred with this 'given.' We can enter the argument that the 'silence in church' passages were inserted into Paul's letters for political reasons. We can also examine how we can better approximate the Gal. 3:28 passage. Either path of inquiry will lead to better understanding and better discernment of God's will in our lives. - David Robbins Tue, 08 May 2007 12:00:00 +0100 http://pres-outlook.net/opinion/editorials/4728.html#comment-3283 Well done Jack. Well done! Keep up the good work. - Rev Dr Walter J Ungerer Mon, 07 May 2007 12:00:00 +0100 http://pres-outlook.net/opinion/editorials/4728.html#comment-3279 I am taken with the phrase 'closer study revealed' that a centuries held interpretation of these ancient texts was no longer sustainable. I can't help but wonder what could have caused this new study, conducted in the main over a span of recent decades, to be 'closer' than the study devoted by legions of the faithful over the span of the ages to these texts. There is no new textual material. The closer study is a study of the same words as the older interpretation. In reading these self-same words, did new readers work harder at the interpretive task than their elders? Spend more time at it? Were they just somehow smarter than their predecessors, more adept at the task of assigning meaning to text than the countless thinkers who went before? I think not. What has caused this scrutiny to be 'closer' is not the magical discovery of new and previously unknown scriptural passages or improved exegetical skill. It is the context furnished for scriptural interpretation, and I submit properly so, by the political and social environment in which we now live. These words which once in the mind of human interpreters bore a certain meaning now in a different world must bear a different meaning. Could it be otherwise if scripture is to be a living message? To me, the whole issue of women's ordination is God's way of demonstrating to us that we are called to a constant, ongoing 'closer study' of the living message of scripture. And that we are to seek the power of the Holy Spirit to inform our understanding of this collection of ancient words with the guidance God furnishes to us through the world in which we live. - Robert Morris Mon, 07 May 2007 12:00:00 +0100 http://pres-outlook.net/opinion/editorials/4728.html#comment-3278 Let us never take what likely was Paul's instruction for one first century church (remember, there was no 'Bible' when Paul wrote those words) to be God's call for ordination in every time and every place. ATP - Arthur Paine Mon, 07 May 2007 12:00:00 +0100