Dr. Silas C. Nair Answers Your Questions
Would you please give me an explanation of 1 Tim. 2:11-14: “Let the woman learn in silence with all subjection. But I permit not a woman to teach … And Adam was not deceived, but the woman, being deceived, was in the transgression.”
In salvation, there is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free, there is neither male nor female; for you are all one in Christ (Gal.3.28). At the same time, many portions of scripture teach that men and women in the church have different ministries. Though they have same position, they do not have the same responsibilities – and consequently they do not share the same sphere of authority.
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Your Questions Answered By Dr. Silas C. Nair
Q. Every branch in me that beareth not fruit he taketh away; and every branch that beareth fruit he purgeth it, that it may bring forth more fruit. I am the vine you are the branches. He that abideth in me, and I in him, the same bringeth forth much fruit; for without me you can do nothing. If a man abide not in me, he is cast forth as a branch, and is withered; and men gather them, and cast them into the fire, and they are burned” (Jn.15.2,5-6). “In me” here seems to imply “saved” persons. And we can see branches in Him(Christ) are saved persons. And that these saved people in Christ can be cast into the fire. This passage seems to suggest that we can loose our salvation. Do you agree?
Answer
Let us first note the context of the text under discussion. This is part of the upper room discourse spoken to his apostles. Here, our Lord washed the feet of the disciples and set before them a model in Christian service. He set also their minds at rest with His words of the Father’s home and the Comforter that would be sending to them after His departure.
Chapter fifteen begins with a parable of the vine and the branches. “A parable is a similitude used basically to teach or enforce a truth”. A parable has one central idea in most cases and if we ignore this fact, we will often miss the truth taught in the parable. There may be other ideas too in the parable — when it is specifically brought forth in it by the giver of the parable. The central idea in the parable is fruit bearing.
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Your Questions Answered By Dr. Silas C. Nair
Q: “Are some people destined for salvation as it says in Acts?”
Answer: Bible does not say, either in Acts or anywhere else that God has predestined anyone for salvation. Probably you are referring to Acts 13.48 when you asked the question “When the gentiles heard this, they were glad and glorified the word of the Lord. And as many as has been appointed to eternal life believed”(NKJV). “ordained” (KJV).
Paul preached in the Synagogue in Antioch of Pisidia. The Jews when they saw the multitude listening to Paul were filled with envy, and contradicting and blaspheming, they opposed the things spoken by Paul. Paul told them: “since you reject it, and judge yourselves unworthy of everlasting life, behold we turn to the gentiles”. But when the Gentiles heard this they were glad and glorified the word of the Lord. The only way to glorify the word of God is to accept it and believe it. What the Jews refused to believed the Gentiles did. “And as many as had been appointed to eternal life believed”. They were favourably disposed to believe the gospel. The Greek Scholar W.E.Vine comments: “It is said of those who, having believed the gospel, “were ordained to eternal life” (W.E.Vine, Expository Dictionary).
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