Women in the first century church

Amen, Brother Jim 1999.

Back to qwerty's original question about the first century church...

I would like to recommend a book, entitled "What Paul Really Said About Women" by John Temple Bristow. It is a small book and I think it will help describe the first century church and what Paul was trying to accomplish.

Paul was trying to find some way for the Jews and the Gentles to worship together through a common faith in Christ. In the Church, Jewish Christians and Gentile Christians, slaves and masters, women and men, would all be equal. As Bristow points out, But in his attempt to make this dream come true, Paul found an obstacle in the different meanings of the practices of that day.

Bristow further states:

The importance of the place of women in the Church was indicated by the fact that Paul (Saul) arrested both men and women believers. "But SAul ravaged the church, entering house after house, dragging off both men and women and delivering them to prison" Acts 8:3.

Paul continued to respect Christian women after he became a Christian.

The first convert he made in Europe was Lydia, one of these women, whom he baptized Acts 16:14-15.

I hope this will help you, querty.

 

You mean laying down the rules for the church at Corinth? (1Cor 1:2). We may, of course, draw theological principles from the text and apply them throughout the churches.

There is first of all a local application. In each letter (epistle) a local condition or circumstance was being addressed. Within each letter there are applicable principles. Some, however, are purely local concepts and address local conditions including customs and local practices....if you take everything literally, then you better start sending some funds to Jerusalem.(1Cor16:3)

Cheers,

Jim

 

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Querty, I found the following site interesting:

http://www.scs.unr.edu/~fdaniels/rel/women.htm

You can do a search and find all kinds of information regarding women and the first century church.