Should Women be Silent in Church?  September 4, 2009 document REVISED

The following four scripture references talk about women, their relationship, and their required actions towards the church and their husbands.  If taken literally these scriptures imply such things as: women should be silent in church, women are not permitted to speak in the churches, the husband is the leader of the wife, women should learn in silence, women shall be “saved” by having children, women should not teach or have authority over the man, but be silent, and women should not be preachers or pastors.  

1Corinthians14:34-35 “Let your women keep silence in the churches: for it is not permitted unto them to speak; but they are ...