Did you know that there is an egalitarian “silver bullet” Bible verse?
Many egalitarians (who hold that women can rightly be elders, or any other position in the church) see Galatians 3:28 as such a powerful and wide-sweeping statement that it overrules any interpretation of any other passage in the Bible that would restrict roles of women in any fashion.
In my own experience, every egalitarian knows about this but many complementarians do not.
In this video, part 7 of my Women in Ministry series, I’ll be doing a detailed analysis of egalitarian scholar, Cynthia Long Westfall’s case for why Galatians 3:28 is such a pivotal passage for understanding women’s roles and for proving that complementarian views are fundamentally wrong.
“There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free, there is no male and female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus.”
Galatians 3:28
After years of being a bit confused about the topic of women in ministry I set out to spend months researching the topic in great detail to produce this exhaustive teaching series on the topic.
CLICK HERE for the playlist of ALL the videos in this series (more will be added as I make them).
Resources you may be interested in:
- My notes from today
- Discovering Biblical Equality is the most updated work from a slew of egalitarian scholars. While I thoroughly disagree with it in a somewhat continual manner, it’s a good resource for cutting edge egalitarian scholarship. The publisher, IVP, was kind enough to send me an advanced copy when I first started this research project.
- Ben Witherington’s 1981 paper, “Rite and Rights for Women”
- CLICK HERE for my video on the Hebrew Roots Movement in regards to Acts (this relates to my claim that Jews and Gentiles did, indeed, have differences in the church in some ways)
- CLICK HERE for my video on what the Bible teaches about slavery
I have other references and data in my notes from this series, which you can freely have through my website https://BibleThinker.org
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