No, they are not to preach. You can't find a woman preacher or priest anywhere in the bible. Show me a bible verse of one and I'll agree with you.
Woman can do a lot like prophesy, gifts of the Holy Spirit, be called disciples, be helpers of the church, but nowhere is there ever one preacher in the New Testament to the church, SORRY!
Quoting: Anonymous Coward 20586262 There is not one Scripture in the Bible that forbids women from preaching, but on the contrary, there are many verses that encourage both men and women to preach the Gospel.
Give me just one bible verse that mentions a name of a woman apostle, bishop, or deacon to the church. That's all I ask for! You can't because there isn't one. Were there any priests that were women? NO. Jesus carried this into the New Testament and it was understood by all in the first church so there was no need to put a verse forbidding it. All apostles Jesus chose were men, Jesus didn't even pick His own mother who bore Him. That should tell you something right there! It does forbid a woman to teach a man. So how can a woman preach, that would be teaching men!
You mis interpret the verse.
1Ti 2:11 Let a woman in quietness.
learn in all subjection,
1Ti 2:12 and a woman
I do not suffer to teach, nor to rule a husband, but to be in quietness,
A "woman" here refers to a wife, not women in general. Look at the context.
Secondly, a "wife" is not to "Teach" or "Rule" her Husband, but to be in "quietness" or "submission" to him. She is to learn from Him.
This is in line with Godly order.
This does not mean a woman can not rule or teach over a man or male.
How would male children be taught anything if not by their Mothers?Thirdly to your question of women in leadership.
Romans 16:7
"Greet Andronicus and Junias (Junia) my relatives who have been in prison with me. They are outstanding among the apostles, and they were in Christ before I was."
Early commentators record that Junia was a female apostle, until the 13th century, when it was changed to a male version of the name.
Dr. Leonard Swidler states,
"To the best of my knowledge, no commentator on the Text until Aegidus of Rome (1245-1316) took the name to be masculine." So until the late 13th century, historical references all agreed that Junia was female, as did the men below.Origen, of Alexandria who lived toward the end of the second century (c. 185-253).
See Epistolam ad Romanos Commentariorum 10, 23; 29.
John Chrysostrom, 4th century, (337-497) wrote,
"Oh! How great is the devotion of this woman, that she should be even counted worthy of the appellation of apostle! (Homily on the Epistle of St. Paul the Apostle to the Romans XXXI).
Jerome (340-419) wrote that Junia was a female. (Liver Interpretationis Hebraicorum Nominum 72, 15.)
Also: Hatto of Vercelli (924-961), Theophylack (1050-1108), and Peter Abelard (1079-1142), commented on her being a woman Apostle.
So do not be deluded by False teachers, that distort the true Gospel.
But remember this verse: Gal 3:28
there is not here Jew or Greek, there is not here servant nor freeman, there is not here male and female, for all ye are one in Christ Jesus; Gal 3:29 and if ye are of Christ then of Abraham ye are seed, and according to promise--heirs.
