KJV 1 Timothy 2:11 Let the woman learn in silence with all subjection. 12 But I suffer not a woman to teach, nor to usurp authority over the man, but to be in silence. 13 For Adam was first formed, then Eve. 14 And Adam was not deceived, but the woman being deceived was in the transgression. 15 Notwithstanding she shall be saved in childbearing, if they continue in faith and charity and holiness with sobriety.
This passage is clear, with Paul using two infinitives to explain what he does not allow, one to show what he does allow.
12 But I suffer not a woman
to teach,
nor to usurp authority over the man,
but to be in silence.
This passage is more encompassing than women reading the Scriptures in church or other examples where WELS/ELS/LCMS feminists take baby steps toward women's ordination.
The apostates like to fuzz up the discussion by introducing all kinds of phony exceptions, such as women teaching children in Sunday School (men? where?) and women playing the organ (does that usurp authority?).
I saw where Missouri was going in the 1980s, before Al Barry was elected. At the Trinity (ELCA) seminary library, the women students bragged in their vicarage reports about working in LCMS congregations, preaching and baptizing and consecrating Holy Communion. Paul McCain almost had a cow denying this was going on and did not want to hear another word about it.
Missouri has made a lot of progress since then. So has WELS.
It will not stop there.
