An Analysis About the Disturbing Story of the Biblical Passage: 1 Corinthians 14: 33a-40 (Women to Be Silent in the Church)
An Analysis about the Disturbing Story of the Biblical Passage: 1 Corinthians 14: 33a-40 (Women to be silent in the Church)
Introduction
A Bible reading has been an important part of human faith and religious devotions. Passages are to be analyzed, interpreted and contemplated to get the real meaning and to allow certain learning to justify an issue of social situations.
For countless years, it has been upheld that the Bible endorses anti-female favor or sentiments. On the other hand, men are the ones to be recognized as to be commended and normally positioned to the highest level of social order.
In lieu of those information above,this paper will focus on addressing the disturbing and problematic issue found on the Biblical text 1 Corinthians 14: 33a-40 which shares that women are to be silent in service of church. The researcher found it timely as the modern time talks about how women empowerment could be so essential in a strong governance or equilibrium in our society.
A emergent community of Jewish and declared Christian female theologians are bring into being a genus of religious literature that caters new and controversial concepts about who were the actual writers of certain Bible books and how best to appreciate the Bible's comments about women. The schemes are many and arguable. For the maximum part, we will set the theories aside - whether advanced by men or women - in order to scrutinize the Biblical material first hand (Flemings, 1993).
Statement of the Problem
In 1 Corinthians 14:34-35, Paul wrote: “As in all the congregations of the saints, women should remain silent in the churches. They are not permissible to speak, but must be in obedience, as the Law says. If they need to request about something, they should enquire their own husbands at home; for it is dishonorable for a woman to speak in the church” (vv. 33-35).
If we take this literally, it would mean that women are not permissible to neither sing in church nor
Introduction
A Bible reading has been an important part of human faith and religious devotions. Passages are to be analyzed, interpreted and contemplated to get the real meaning and to allow certain learning to justify an issue of social situations.
For countless years, it has been upheld that the Bible endorses anti-female favor or sentiments. On the other hand, men are the ones to be recognized as to be commended and normally positioned to the highest level of social order.
In lieu of those information above,this paper will focus on addressing the disturbing and problematic issue found on the Biblical text 1 Corinthians 14: 33a-40 which shares that women are to be silent in service of church. The researcher found it timely as the modern time talks about how women empowerment could be so essential in a strong governance or equilibrium in our society.
A emergent community of Jewish and declared Christian female theologians are bring into being a genus of religious literature that caters new and controversial concepts about who were the actual writers of certain Bible books and how best to appreciate the Bible's comments about women. The schemes are many and arguable. For the maximum part, we will set the theories aside - whether advanced by men or women - in order to scrutinize the Biblical material first hand (Flemings, 1993).
Statement of the Problem
In 1 Corinthians 14:34-35, Paul wrote: “As in all the congregations of the saints, women should remain silent in the churches. They are not permissible to speak, but must be in obedience, as the Law says. If they need to request about something, they should enquire their own husbands at home; for it is dishonorable for a woman to speak in the church” (vv. 33-35).
If we take this literally, it would mean that women are not permissible to neither sing in church nor