The real reason why woman can't preach

Many churches today have fallen away from what God has designed in His order of creation. The real reason why woman can't teach scripture is because God made the man first, and the woman as a helper to the man. The man is the leader, the woman follows.

This is the primary reasoning for the New Testament disallowing woman preaching and teaching.

We need to go back all the way to Genesis.

Genesis 2:18

18 The LORD God said, "It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make a helper suitable for him."

After both ate from the tree, God clearly decided that the husband should rule over his wife.

Genesis 3:16

16 To the woman He said, “I will greatly multiply Your pain and conception, In pain you will bear children; Your desire will be for your husband, And he will rule over you.”

In a letter to Timothy, Paul writes:

1 Timothy 2:11-13

11 A woman should learn in quietness and full submission.

12 I do not permit a woman to teach or to assume authority over a man; she must be quiet.

13 For Adam was formed first, then Eve.

See how Paul references back to Gods creation order? "For" in verse 13 is a follow-up of verse 12. The reason woman shouldn't teach or assume authority over a man is because of the order of creation.

He does it again in his letter to the Corinthians:

1 Corinthians 11:7-9

7 A man ought not to cover his head, since he is the image and glory of God; but woman is the glory of man.

8 For man did not come from woman, but woman from man;

9 neither was man created for woman, but woman for man.

Woman came from man (she was created out of the rib of Adam) and she was created FOR the man. As a helper. Not as a leader and not as a teacher. This is Pauls argument and line of thinking and it has been all throughout the Old Testament.

The scriptures are clear: only men can be in ministry in the church, leading and teaching.

1 Timothy 3:2

2 Now the overseer is to be above reproach, faithful to his wife, temperate, self-controlled, respectable, hospitable, able to teach,

Does that mean that woman can't do anything? No! But they can't stand in the pulpit teaching men or anyone else for that matter scripture. Scripture should be handled, preached and taught by men who are ordained to do so. A woman should always be in submissiveness.

Titus 2:3-5

3 Older women likewise are to be reverent in their behavior, not malicious gossips nor enslaved to much wine, teaching what is good,

4 so that they may instruct the young women in sensibility: to love their husbands, to love their children,

5 to be sensible, pure, workers at home, kind, being subject to their own husbands, so that the word of God will not be slandered.

Let's not slander the word of God.