From 98fc758ae38a41c9e1f87e85bbc464def38c86e4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: joycerendahl Date: Tue, 3 Mar 2020 16:49:21 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Add '55-1ti/02.md' --- 55-1ti/02.md | 161 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 161 insertions(+) create mode 100644 55-1ti/02.md diff --git a/55-1ti/02.md b/55-1ti/02.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..87753a5 --- /dev/null +++ b/55-1ti/02.md @@ -0,0 +1,161 @@ +# 1 Timothy 2 +## 2:1-4 + +### What was an “intercession”? + +An intercession was a prayer. This was a prayer made to God for a specific person or was asking God to +help because a specific thing that was happening to a person. + +### How did a person live a “peaceful and quiet” life? + +Scholars think someone had a “peaceful” life when they were at peace. They were at peace with +themselves or had peace inside of themselves. These scholars think someone had a “quiet” life when +they were at peace with others. The government did not cause them problems. + +### What was godliness? + +See: (Godly) Godliness + +### How did a person live with “dignity”? + +A person lived with “dignity”(σεμνότης/g4587) when they lived in a way that others respected. That is, +Christians and non-Christians thought the things they did were good for everyone. + +### Why did Paul write that he  “desires all people to be saved”? + +Many people in Ephesus thought that only the Jewish people were saved from sinning. Certain people +taught only the most spiritual people could be saved from sinning. This is not true. Paul wanted Timothy to +know God did not save only certain groups of people. God wants all people to be saved from sinning. +However, not every person wants to be saved from sinning. + +See: Spirit (Spiritual) + +### How did a person “come to the knowledge of the truth”? + +The truth about which Paul wrote was the gospel. People who “came to the knowledge of the truth” were +people who believed in the gospel. + +See: Gospel + +## 2:5-7 + +### Why did Paul write, “there is one God”? + +People thought there were many gods when Paul lived. However, in the Bible there is only “one God.” The +Israelites knew there was only one God (see: Deuteronomy 6:4-5). + +### How is Jesus the “one mediator” between God and humans? + +Jesus is the mediator between God and humans because he died for people’s sinning. A +“mediator”(μεσίτης/g3316) was a person who helped people with a conflict to be at peace with one another. +Because of man’s sinning, God and man were separated. Jesus’ death and resurrection allowed for man to +not be separated from God. Jesus was both God and human. This made him the perfect mediator between +God and humans. + +See: Mediator; Resurrect (Resurrection); Sin; Atone (Atonement) + +### What did Paul mean that “Jesus...gave himself as a ransom for all”? + +Jesus gave himself as a ransom to God to be able to free people from the punishment of sinning (see: +Romans 5:12-21). A “ransom”(ἀντίλυτρον/g0487) was a price paid to free someone from slavery. All +humans are slaves to sin. That is, they cannot choose not to do the things that do not honor God. God must +punish all sin. The price that needed to be paid for sinning was death (see: Romans 6:23). Therefore, Jesus +paid this price of sin for every human when he died on the cross. + +### Why did Paul write, “a testimony at the right time”? + +The death, burial, and resurrection of Jesus served as a “testimony” that God’s word was true. That is, it +proved that what Jesus said about himself was true. Paul said this testimony was given “at the right time.” +That meant God made a specific time for the gospel to be made known (see: Galatians 4:4-7). + +See: Resurrect (Resurrection); Gospel + +### What was a “herald”? + +Often, a ruler used someone to speak for him. This person was a herald. The herod told things to the ruler’s +people. Paul wrote that God made Paul speak for God. He told all people the gospel. + +### What was an “apostle”? + +See: Apostle + +### Who were the “Gentiles”? + +See: Gentile + +### Why did Paul write, “in faith and truth”? + +Paul wrote “in faith and truth.” Scholars think Paul meant he taught the Gentiles about the faith and the +truth. That is, he taught the Gentiles what they needed to know about Jesus and what was true. + +## 2:8-10 + +### What did it mean to “lift up holy hands without anger or arguing”? + +Paul said, “lift up holy hands without anger or arguing.” Some scholars think Christians prayed standing +with their arms and hands lifted up in front of them. The Jewish people also did this in the synagogues. +These scholars think lifting “holy”(ὅσιος/g3741) hands meant Christians’ prayers were committed to God. +They think this also meant that Christians were committed to doing the things that honor God. That is, this +made their hands holy. +Christians also prayed without “anger or arguing.” They did not want to have arguments and thoughts that +did not honor God. They wanted to live a holy life. That is, they only wanted to do the things that honored +God. + +See: Synagogue + +### What was “proper clothing”? + +Proper clothing meant that a woman wore clothes that were “modest”(αἰδώς/g0127). Paul did not want +women to dress in a way that others would be looking at their clothes. For a women to wear modest clothes +meant that she wore things that did not upset other people. Also she wore things that did not make men +look at her in a sexual way. A woman using self-control in the things that she wore wanted to do the things +that honored God instead of worrying about the things that other people thought about her. +Advice to translators: When a man looks at a woman in a sexual way, he thinks about having sex with her +and wants to have sex with her. + +See: Self-control + +### How did a woman clothe herself with “good works”? + +Paul used a metaphor. In the same way clothing is seen by other people, so good works are seen by other +people also. Paul wanted women to worry about the things they did for God not about the things that they +wore. + +## 2:11-15 + +### Why did Paul write for women to, “learn in silence”? + +Some scholars think Paul did not allow women to speak when Christians gathered together to worship God. +Other scholars think Paul taught women to be quiet while the Bible was being taught. This was so they +could listen and learn what was being taught. These scholars think Paul used the word +“silence”(ἡσυχία/g2271) in the same way that he used it when he spoke about praying for leaders. That is, +so they might live a quiet and peaceful life (see: 2:2). + +See: Worship + +### How did a woman learn “with all submission”? + +Paul wanted women to submit to the teaching elders. These elders taught the truth of the Bible and +corrected errors being taught. + +See: Submit (submission); Elder + +### Why was a woman not allowed to “teach or to exercise authority over a man”? + +Some scholars think Paul did not allow women to teach men about what the Bible taught while Christians +were gathered together. These scholars also think Paul did not allow women to teach men about the things +they needed to do to honor God while Christians gathered together. +Other scholars think Paul allowed women to teach when Christians gathered together only if they did not +try “exercise authority”(αὐθεντέω/g0831) over the men in the gathering. That is, the women did not need to +tell the men how to know the scriptures. They did not need to take control of the elders in a gathering. + +See: Elder + +### Why did Paul write women “will be saved through bearing children”? + +Some scholars think Paul wrote about a promise made in Genesis. This was the promise that the a +descendant of the woman would defeat Satan (see: Genesis 3:15). This promise was a prophecy of Jesus. +Other scholars think the words meant that women, in general, would not die during childbirth. Other +scholars think Paul wrote that women preserve humans by having more children. + +See: Satan (The Devil); Prophecy (Prophesy)