But that's not the point!

I was listening to a debate on BBC radio 5 live on the way to work the other morning. They had two people from the Church of England debating the latest thorny issue of making women bishops. One was meant to be a traditionalist/conservative and the other a more liberal minded cleric (who happened to be a woman priest). In my opinion after listening to them it was a liberal and an extreme liberal.The interviewer tried hard to bring in the even thornier issue of the ordination of 'gay' bishops but neither of them were having any of it and were not for biting.

What a mess this institution is in! It is riven by splits over gay priests and women priests, there is a Evangelical wing, an Anglo-Catholic wing and a Liberal wing. Their big problem is their abandonment of the literal interpretation of the Scriptures. I mean to say how else are we to understand the Bible, God says what He means and He means what He says.

They should not be debating as to whether or not they should have women bishops, that is not the point, they should not have women clerics of any kind. I do not say this out of any sort of male chauvinism but merely out of regard for what God's word teaches. The Bible is clear on this matter, the Apostle Paul under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit told the young Pastor Timothy.

'Let the woman learn in silence with all subjection. But I suffer not a woman to teach, nor to usurp authority over the man, but to be in silence. For Adam was first formed, then Eve.' 1st Timothy 2 v 11-13

The letters of Paul to Timothy are often referred to as Pastoral Epistles, Paul was teaching this young preacher how to order the local Church. Why would we ever want to abandon God's order of things as revealed in His word?