Timothy Birdnow

I guess Pope Francis doesn't remember 1Ttimothy 2:12


Pope Francis has named the first woman to head a major Vatican office

Paul admonishes Timothy:

"I do not permit a woman to teach or to exercise authority over a man; rather, she is to remain quiet. "

He elaborates:

"The women should keep silent in the churches. For they are not permitted to speak, but should be in submission, as the Law also says. If there is anything they desire to learn, let them ask their husbands at home. For it is shameful for a woman to speak in church."

Also:

"Let a woman learn quietly with all submissiveness."

Then there is 1Corinthians 14:34:

"The women should keep silent in the churches. For they are not permitted to speak, but should be in submission, as the Law also says."

And 1Timothy 13-14:

"For Adam was formed first, then Eve; and Adam was not deceived, but the woman was deceived and became a transgressor."

How about Isaiah 3:12:

"My people—infants are their oppressors, and women rule over them. O my people, your guides mislead you and they have swallowed up the course of your paths."

I would add Jesus chose only men for leadership positions, despite having some very faithful female followers.

Paul said men and women were equal and indeed they are - but not the same and have different roles. Nobody would argue a single father makes a better parent than a mother (assuming both are of equal competency and love their children equally); men just aren't as good at the things a mother provides. Ditto women, who cannot provide the male role model children need. But together they make a strong family.

And while there were a few notable exceptions to the "women shouldn't lead" beliefs in the Bible, notably in the Old Testament, the fact is the Bible is quite concrete about the matter and when viewed as a whole women were not supposed to be in leadership positions in the Bible. You can argue with me all you like but it is of little account; this isn't my view but the Word of God.

So Franicis is just dismissing the Word of God to please modern society and make the Church comport with modern sensibilities. How have those sensibilities worked out thus far? How many broken homes, depressed children, deadbeat fathers, overworked mothers, are around now? How much spiritual darkness? The world didn't have these moral and spiritual plagues in any mamor fashion as we do now, like transgenderism or rampant homosexuality. Yes, they were always there to a degree (Man is a sinner and inherently evil) but they didn't stalk our children as now. THAT is the fruit of what Francis is trying to institutionalize.

This brings to mind Revelation9: 7-10

"The appearance of the locusts was like horses prepared for battle; and on their heads appeared to be crowns like gold, and their faces were like human faces.

They had hair like the hair of women, and their teeth were like the teeth of lions.

They had breastplates like breastplates of iron, and the sound of their wings was like the thundering of many horses and chariots rushing into battle.

They had tails with stingers, like scorpions, and in their tails they had power to torment people for five months."

So we are looking at girly-men or masculinized women types who devour like locusts and who carry stings which cause pain to the inhabitants of the Earth. Sounds like the modern era to me.

In 2Timothy 1-5 we learn:

"2 Timothy 3.1-5

"But mark this: There will be terrible times in the last days. People will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boastful, proud, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy, without love, unforgiving, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, not lovers of the good, treacherous, rash, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God— having a form of godliness but denying its power. Have nothing to do with such people.”

Sound familiar? These are the fruits of the Progressive project, and the end result of the breaking down of traditional sexual roles. And does not Pope Francis "have a form of godliness but deny it'spower"? He is all hat and no cattle.

In 2Peter 3: 3-4 we learn:

"Above all, you must understand that in the last days, scoffers will come, scoffing and following their own evil desires. They will say, "Where is this ‘coming’ he promised? Ever since our ancestors died, everything goes on as it has since the beginning of creation.””

And indeed scoffers sneer at the Word of God and insist their way is better even when we have objective evidence their way brings pain and suffering and death. And Pope Francis is right in there promoting such.

BTW the woman put in charge is a nun and will be the boss of all religious orders. Anyone who has ever dealt with nuns knows they are an officious, bureacratic lot and most of them are hopelessly passive-aggressive. Now all religious orders will become full of snark and anyone who doesn't toe the line will be rapped with a metaphorical ruler.

Francis is apostate and is threatening to cause a schism in the Church by overturning fundamental principles, Biblical principles. But then, the Catholic Church always believed a Pope would wind up bveing the false prophet mentioned in Revelation. Is Francis that false prophet?

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