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Should women speak during church gatherings? Should they teach?
Paul addresses this question directly in I Corinthians 14:34-36, and also slightly more generally in I Timothy 2:11-14. He tells the Corinthians that women should be in silent subjection during meetings of the church, in keeping with the tenor of the Old Testament. In I Timothy 2:11-14, Paul instructs that women should not teach or take the authority of a man in general. He tells us that there were two reasons why women should not take that place, and both are related to the way God created man and woman. Adam was made first, and secondly, Eve was deceived and Adam was not. God has generally placed man in a position of headship and authority and not the woman. This is not a statement of the relative value of the man and woman, but rather a statement of their relative positions in God's creation. God also created men and women to have different strengths and weaknesses, and so we need each other. Eve's weakness was displayed in that she was deceived by the serpent in the garden, whereas Adam was not. Adam committed a bold act of disobedience in eating of the fruit, but was not deceived like Eve was. If we were to say that one was worse than the other, we would probably say that Adam committed a far worse act in doing what he very clearly knew to be wrong. However, the fact that Eve was deceived was the reason that women should not teach. Although not specifically stated, I gather from this that women's strengths lie elsewhere and that God has fit them for different tasks other than teaching. I also gather that they are more likely to be deceived, as Eve was, and that that is the reason God has said they should not teach.
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