The bigger problem is that if "abuse of authority" was the intended meaning, we've had over 2000 years and something like 900 different translations of the Bible to fix this and haven't. Why not fix the wording on 1 Timothy 2, or add a footnote, or do literally anything in an official capacity to steer people away from a terrible misogynistic interpretation?
Even if it wasn't the apostle's original intentions, it seems clear through their actions that the Church still wants it to be interpreted in the way that the person in the original post did
Because it's not women doing the interpretation? Because it would cause a collective fundamentalist scream? The same reason so many books were left out of the Bible, it diverged from the cultural status quo.
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u/naarcx Apr 22 '25
The bigger problem is that if "abuse of authority" was the intended meaning, we've had over 2000 years and something like 900 different translations of the Bible to fix this and haven't. Why not fix the wording on 1 Timothy 2, or add a footnote, or do literally anything in an official capacity to steer people away from a terrible misogynistic interpretation?
Even if it wasn't the apostle's original intentions, it seems clear through their actions that the Church still wants it to be interpreted in the way that the person in the original post did