Saved Through Childbirth

The last two weeks we have been working our way through Paul’s instructions to Timothy regarding women. This is certainly a difficult passage. It goes against most of our mainstream culture today. Yet it is important to remember that the problems with this passage are not really with the instruction, but with the reasoning over why Paul gives the instruction. The first part was simple. Women were to dress modestly and simple so as to not be a distraction in the church.
The second part was an admonition for women to be silent in the church, not teaching or taking authority over a man--A simple command, yet one that is greatly disputed today. Is it a universal principle for all Christians or an opinion of Paul for Ephesus only? The answer is easy to see in the reasoning that Paul gives.