 Hey smart Christians welcome back. I was sent a video to take a look at by one of the viewers Marshall K. Johnson who wanted me to take a look at this particular person. I think his name is Henry Thomas. I'm not sure of his name but I guess he's got a lot of videos on tiktok and he is speaking about egalitarianism and complimentarianism. In other words kind of woman fulfilled the role of the office of a pastor is that okay biblically now his contention is that a woman can and that all of us who believe that she cannot that one we have fallen victim to this white colonized way of thinking how that creeps it I don't know but also that we don't understand our greek and that we don't understand church history and what the bible actually intended so let's look at the video first and then let's kind of take a look at what he stated to see if it's true or false I'm telling you ahead of time he's wrong another person who don't know how to exegete scripture when you reach a bible let me help you out maybe you you're not familiar with the greek well verse one of verse 10 that he said if anyone to where man in there is the generic word for man that phrases anyone it's gender neutral if anyone let's do a couple things first of all when he says that speaking about exegeting scriptures to exegete means to pull out what it says I'm just giving kind of a rough definition but whatever it says we take out of it from what we're reading we're not going to put anything into it unless obviously if we've got the backdrop of other scriptures to add to it and so if there's some scriptures that we can look at either prior to this scripture being written or after or surrounding to kind of add to this to give us the idea in this case about women preaching well then we should go ahead and do so now the problem is though we don't have any scriptures where we can even we can even think that that's even a possibility where we can draw from and there's other passages somewhere that tell us that women are to be leading men women are to be teaching and preaching and pastoring shepherding men we don't see that concept anywhere and so this would be at the outset of what he's just stated what he's doing is classic exegety reading into a passage his own beliefs his own views but then he talks about in the very beginning in this passage in 1 Timothy 3 let's go there and look at it he says that this particular passage he says that this particular passage there is no there's a gender neutral when it says if anyone now on his point this Greek word right here tease he's correct it is gender neutral even though it's masculine which doesn't mean anything because the word is feminine masculine or neutral or neuter doesn't mean anything in terms of relating to a person's gender for example in Hebrew the word Abba that's a feminine term that's a feminine noun but it only refers to a man a father a male and so in this case the word tease does only does refer to anyone a certain one somebody the problem is he's not carrying out his rules throughout the rest of the scripture who said if Paul meant for that to be male man he could have used to wear andross he didn't use anthropoceda because any male or female but he said if anyone that's interesting so now he says that if if he wanted to mean a male a man he would have used the word andross but in this case he didn't well let's just keep reading verse 2 therefore an overseer must be above reproach the husband of one wife now we'll come back and deal with that in just a second however the word that he speaks of andross is there look over to the right it's a Greek word andra which is the word it means either husband or man this word is never ever ever used to describe or to refer to a woman or just the entirety of human being in other words of mankind okay tease could be a word that's used for anyone whosoever even the word cosmos which is the word world that could refer to all of of humankind or as he said the word anthropoceda that also could refer to mankind but andra no never as a matter of fact this word that is brought up when jesus is speaking with the woman at the well she says i don't have a husband she uses the the phrase echo andra which is not i have a husband however jesus turns around and and emphasizes husband a man he says andra first so it's clear without question you won't find any greek student scholar teacher whomever that will tell you that this word is ever used to refer to men and women or a woman and when we look at the phrase again notice what's also there the word is mias gunakas andras which is one wife husband now the word wife is from the word uh gynae which which is obviously where we get the word gynaecology but in this case it's the gynaecos which is a wife one wife husband meaning and this word is only ever used in reference to women plus you don't know the real correct meaning behind husband one wife and wife of one husband that phrase that paul you which is an idiom you don't know the meaning behind it read it in its correct context not in your complementary view that disappears the scripture he he attempts to make the case that this is an idiom well no it's not it's not really an idiom it's not in an idiom especially in the sense that we don't get the meaning from it if you take it as an idiom or someone says it is you know what i'll even grant you that but it's clear if it's an idiom what it means although i say it's not an idiom but it's clear that if it is it's clear that the reference is one woman for this man that's the qualification but then something else is there as well if we drop down the verse four says he must manage his own household well with all dignity keeping his children uh submissive for if someone does not know how to manage his own household how will he take care of the church of god now keeping things in context as well who is supposed to be the head of the house this part isn't debatable either and he didn't i don't think he makes this this issue as well uh the husband is the head of the wife that part of clear paul makes that part jesus is the head of the husband um he's the head of the church but the man is the head of the wife and so he's using this exact same analogy in terms of running the church and so it cannot be if you use this analogy that it also applies to a woman because in this regard the woman cannot be over the man now let's look at some other scriptures also that i think that he fails to to bring into into account properly let's go to 1st timothy 2 8 where it says that i desire in every place that men men should and by the way the word for men is andras that men males should pray lifting holy hands without anger or quarreling likewise also that the women and there's distinction ghanakas uh women should adorn themselves respectable apparel with modesty and self-control not with braided hair or gold or pearls or costly tire look what he says but with what is proper for women who profess godliness with good works let a woman and the word that's used here is a word guy named let a woman learn quietly with all submissiveness here that word that word submissiveness i do not permit a woman what word is used there uh ghanaki woman to teach or exercise authority over a man there's word andro and so what's clear here what's clear here is the distinction between male and female let's finish something up real quick it says rather she is remain silent now the four adam was formed first then eve now well we won't go too far into verse 13 and 14 um but for adam was formed first then eve and adam was not deceived but the woman was deceived so that seems to be in tracking and going along with the whole point of her being in submission well what happened at the fault at the fault the woman was placed under the male headship in other words she was placed in a submissive role because of her role for how long until he changes it until god determines that it will be different and he's but he did say this though that uh from that point on that she would strive but she would go after that she would contend for basically his role and we see that happening now unfortunately we have men such as this brother here who is helping women to go against the roles that god has put out it's not an issue of who's superior who's better who's smarter no it's an issue of order how god has ordained these things not that that the best she doesn't have the ability to speak well or to teach or to learn that's not it at all that's never the case as a matter of fact there are men who are very knowledgeable who know how to teach who know how to speak but also are disqualified from being a pastor but in this passage one portion that tends to get highlighted to the detriment of the other portion in verse 12 he says i do not permit a woman to teach or to exercise authority over a man now i'm not sure how he handles this but oftentimes they'll say that a woman can can can um teach or lead or what have you uh if she's got some sort of spiritual covering and that's why you'll see some people eat back to put a head covering over the women look at the first part look at what comes before then he says i do not permit a woman to teach and there's two things here to teach over a man let alone dealing with the whole part of exercising authority where someone will say well she's not exercising authority well in this regard if she's a pastor she is but she can even teach over a man those are two separate things and so that part is clear this this is not this is not really debatable unless someone just wants to adhere to their own standards unless you feel like you've got some sort of new revelation now paul also addresses this again in first crimson's 14 in verse 34 he says the um as in all churches of the same verse 34 the women should keep silent what's the word for women uh gonike switch is women should keep silent in the churches for they are not permitted to speak but should be in this order again submission as the law also says in other words that this was something that was also required prior to the cross as well so if there's anything that they desire to learn who's the they being the same women let them ask their husbands their word andros at home for a sample for a for a woman to speak and it's the word gonike here in greek uh gonike for a woman to speak in church and in this case the point isn't that she couldn't open her mouth and say anything she couldn't pray she couldn't praise god she couldn't worship no the point was um in this case how things were out of order that she was not allowed to to do those things that she was not allowed to lead to to give guidance and so forth which is what paul says i do not permit a woman to teach or to take authority over man and so paul has also given out the guidelines for who can have these these roles now in the first century church were there women who were servants or deacons well or deaconesses not in the sense of someone having an office having authority there's always been people who've been servants such as phoebe but was phoebe in an official role where she had headship or or leadership or authority over men where she would know that's not the case now it is not the same to say that a woman cannot share the gospel with a male that is not what that's saying it's to teach or to have authority over and so now in this regard you have to have women to be able to say this is what the word of the lord says in terms of leading someone to christ but in as far as the church is concerned she cannot teach over a man in the church that person is not part of the church yet and she cannot have authority over that man uh who is also who is now part of the church and so someone like a phoebe or a priscilla doing just that um saying what the word says that's not taking authority over a man and that in that case is also serving a woman can serve can she have a role where she is officially over a male paul is clear and explicit on that and what you did you just forced and i know people can get in the feeling i said this but it's the truth you just forced Caucasian complementarian theology that was invented by them to keep women subjugated yeah because it goes against historically the bible and historically how we women got to be subjugated in the christian church anyways first timothy don't say that you ain't read it matter of fact you haven't read the original greek because no way to read the original text and come away from that because clearly paul says in verse 11 and likewise the women he didn't say wise he said women there's no pronoun that said there in that text it's likewise women meaning that whatever the men's are the women and you don't know law either because you couldn't know law because if you knew law you'll understand that the law has a lot of point places that was written in the masculine so he brings up verse 11 he says it doesn't say and he's correct the pronoun there is not there and the word this use here is this word gnaikis again now this word could be wives or this word could be women it doesn't matter but he says likewise wives or women must be dignified not slanderous but sober minded faithful and all things verse 12 let the deacons each be the husband of one wife and there's that term again so me ask gnaikis andres which is also again we're talking about a wife of a one wife to the husband one woman to the man how are you going to look at it and it's clear he's speaking about reading the greek he's not doing a very good job of it because it's clear that we're contrasting a deacon this office of a deacon and he says likewise women and then he reverts back to just as they're supposed to be this way you're supposed to be a certain way and it's clear that he's contrasting males deacons with women and we know so because verse 12 he says let the deacon each be the husband of one wife well that makes absolutely no sense if the women are also able to fulfill this role of a deacon and so this person i don't know why he's doing what he's doing but it's clear he's not using scripture properly you do not find certain find greeks gallers who's going to back him up with what he's saying he is clearly wrong and i think what he's doing is he's taking advantage of the fact that people may or may not know the the words uh the greek like he thinks he does which he doesn't and because of that he has failed and he is misleading people so brother jason thank you for sending the video i hope this helps anyone out there that's looking to understand or to address something that he might bring up in that regard but it's clear that they cannot fulfill that role hey man