Support For Women s Leadership - 1712 Words

In order to show support for women in leadership, I will examine several different online resources. Within these sources, I will meticulously pull out key contexts in order to help better articulate the idea of women in leadership roles. As apart of my paper, I will include in my first section of the paper the misinterpretation of 1 Corinthians 14:34. In order to do so, I will be examining the text itself first, then going on to various online resources to gain a better idea of why Paul wrote this section. Ideally in writing this essay, I would like to gain a much better idea of women in the bible that have had leadership roles because it is important to understand in my opinion why women were or were not treated fairly in the context of†¦show more content†¦(1 Corinthians 14:35) I think this is very contradictory to other parts of the bible relating to the above passages, and to be quite frank about it, I do not think it is right for a woman to have to ask her husband to do something. If they feel obligated to do something, they should be able to do it. It seems that what is mentioned in 1 Corinthians 14 is almost completely different from what was mentioned in 1 Corinthians 11 because the tone was. Another important interpretation according to Piper is â€Å"the demand for a woman’s silence is in response to a local and specific group of women† (Piper, 140-153). This explanation is centered on 1 Corinthians 14:33-36 and is focused towards quieting â€Å"noisy women, or uneducated unruly women† (Piper, 140-153). How can it be appropriate, at least in my opinion, to make women be quiet because of their education or because they are standing up for something? I do not agree with these passages personally because it almost seems like a one- sided argument. Another problem with this understanding that I have is that it totally neglects the fact that men could’ve been unruly or uneducated. After all, God put us on this Earth to live as equals which is not represented fairly in these passages. It does not seem like there was â€Å"fairness to the women† when the author Paul wrote 1 Corinthians (Piper, 140-153). The story of Deborah in Judges 4 is a very important passage in representing the idea of women in