{"version":"1.0","provider_name":"Bible Lessons from Jeff Gulleson","provider_url":"https:\/\/www.jeffgulleson.com\/bible-studies","author_name":"Jeff Gulleson","author_url":"https:\/\/www.jeffgulleson.com\/bible-studies\/author\/jgulleson\/","title":"I Tim. 3.11 - Bible Lessons from Jeff Gulleson","type":"rich","width":600,"height":338,"html":"<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"zDVyqo7ayl\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jeffgulleson.com\/bible-studies\/1-timothy\/1-timothy-3\/i-tim-3-11\/\">I Tim. 3.11<\/a><\/blockquote><iframe sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" src=\"https:\/\/www.jeffgulleson.com\/bible-studies\/1-timothy\/1-timothy-3\/i-tim-3-11\/embed\/#?secret=zDVyqo7ayl\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" title=\"&#8220;I Tim. 3.11&#8221; &#8212; Bible Lessons from Jeff Gulleson\" data-secret=\"zDVyqo7ayl\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\"><\/iframe><script>\n\/*! 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While at first glance this may appear superfluous for us, it gives us an up-close-and-personal glimpse into Paul&#8217;s view of women. Today, many so-called scholars have characterized Paul as the architect of male chauvinism and misogyny in western civilization. The truth is that Paul, following in the foot-steps of Jesus, was a revolutionary liberator of women. In order to appreciate this fact, we need to compare Paul&#8217;s view of women to that of his own culture and other major world religions. So before we examine this passage more closely, let&#8217;s survey . . . Paul&#8217;s world Paul was raised in a conservative Jewish home in a Greco-Roman city (Tarsus). Both of these cultures had a low view of women. GRECO-ROMAN SOCIETY: Three reasons for gratitude, to be repeated by Greek men: \u201c . . . that I was born a human being and not a beast, next a man and not a woman, thirdly, a Greek and not a barbarian.\u201d1 Epictetus, a first-century AD philosopher, asserted that &#8220;Woman&#8217;s world is one thing; men&#8217;s another.&#8221;2 He also spoke of women with such adjectives as &#8220;worthless,&#8221; &#8220;weeping,&#8221; and &#8220;silly.&#8221;3 The noble Roman philosopher Seneca (4 BC-65 AD) classified women as innately inferior to men.4 Charles Carlston sums up the Greco-Roman world\u2019s view of women: \u201c . . . on balance . . . the picture drawn is a grim one. Women . . . are basically ineducable and empty-headed; vengeful, dangerous, and responsible for men\u2019s sins; mendacious, treacherous, and unreliable; fickle; valuable only through their relationships with men; incapable of moderation or spontaneous goodness; at their best in the dark; interested only in sex&#8211;unless they are with their husbands, in which case (apparently) they would rather talk. In short, women are one and all \u2018a set of vultures,\u2019 the \u2018most beastly\u2019 of all the beasts on land or sea, and marriage is at best a necessary evil.\u201d5 JEWISH SOCIETY: In spite of its Old Testament heritage, the Judaism of Paul&#8217;s day was scarcely better in its view of women than the Greco-Roman culture. Although the Old Testament narrates and praises many female heroes (Deborah, Esther, Ruth, Rahab, etc.), the Apocrypha (1 Macc. 2:51-60; 4 Macc. 16:20-23) praises only Old Testament male heroes without any mention of women. The Apocryphal book Ecclesiasticus also contains these misogynous statements: Ecclesiasticus 25:19 Any iniquity is insignificant compared to a wife&#8217;s iniquity. Ecclesiasticus 22:3 It is a disgrace to be the father of an undisciplined, and the birth of a daughter is a loss. In the first-century Jewish world, things weren\u2019t much better. Consider these two contemporaries: Philo, a famous philosopher, held that the proper relationship of a wife to her husband was to \u201cserve as a slave,\u201d and that the only purpose of marriage was procreation.6 Josephus, a historian, reflects the Jewish consensus when he says, [&hellip;]"}