The
little arrow points to a supernatural sign to the theatrical
performers:
It is
the glory of God to conceal
a matter and the glory
of Kings to search out
a matter. Prov 25:2
The urge for the deaconess arises out of the
effeminization of the church (feminine or effeminate). Part of this
rises out of the very nature of dominant clergy, some out of the
repudiation of the Bible and the imperative to get paid while
teaching atheisism and part of it from the calculated reliance on the
NIV which has been stripped of all of its masculine gender. The NIV
is the "manual" of groups such as Willow Creek where, one way or
another, you will sign a covenant affirming your agreement to obey
elderesses and deaconesses. However, If you are going to use Catholic authority
and;
If you become a priest (preacher), elder or
deacon before you marry then you can not marry. However, only virgins
qualify. Ooops!
If you are married you may become an elder or
preacher (priest) or deacon but you have to let the church take care
of your wife as a nun or let her serve as a deaconess to earn her
bread. NO conjugal visits, please.
Canon
XLVIII.
The wife of him who is advanced to the Episcopal dignity, shall be separated from her husband by their mutual consent,
and after his ordination and consecration to the episcopate (eldership)
she shall enter a monastery situated at a distance from the abode of the bishop, and there let her
enjoy the bishop's
provision.
And if she is deemed worthy she may be advanced to the
dignity of a deaconess.
If you are a widow over 60 (or 40) you may
serve as a Widow Indeed (biblical title) although we may call you
deaconess.
If you get married then you will be
anathematized.
If you are a virgin you may become a nun
although we will call you a deaconess.
If as Deaconess you get married you
will be anathematized. A monk or dedicated virgin who marries, is to
be excommunicated.
If the preacher's or elder's wife is over 60
(or 40) she may become a deaconess. However, she will not be able to
live with him. And she will gain no authority over the church.
If your wife dies you will never be able to
marry because using the Catholic authority "the husband of one wife"
is a once-married man. No MDRM here!
If your wife died and you remarried and then
became an "officer" you must resign or get rid of that woman who is
not your wife.
If you were not a virgin
before taking holy offices then you are self condemned by using
Catholic authority:
It is evident that
those from the priesthood are chiefly taken from the order of virgins, or if not from virgins, at least from
monks; or if not from the order of
monks,
then they are wont
to be made priests who
keep themselves from their wives, or who are widows after a single marriage.
But he that has been
entangled by a second
marriage is not
admitted to priesthood in the Church, even if he
be continent from his wife, or be a widower.
Anyone of this sort
is rejected from the grade of bishop,
presbyter, deacon,
or subdeacon.
Nay, moreover, he that
still uses
marriage, and begets
children, even though the husband of but one wife, is by no means
admitted by the Church to the order of deacon, presbyter, bishop, or
subdeacon. But for all this, he who shall have kept himself from the
commerce of his one wife
If you are going to sow discord among brethren
because you have been convinced that God sent you to practice
"navigating the winds of change" then here is what you should do or
shoot yourself to get off the dole of those you are spiritually
abusing.
If you appoint a Deaconess you do so with
absolutely no Biblical or historical authority that a Deaconess is
just a Deacon of the female persuasion.
If you need no Biblical authority then Jesus
would label you a devil because "you speak on your own" and need no
Biblical authority. However, if you do not believe the Bible and
still insist on the "wages" from the widows and orphans provided only
to the evangelist then you are a thief as surely as if you robbed a
bank.
In many ancient traditions, those who fall
actually lust for company and make their total occupation the
destruction of the faith of others. Jesus knew that there still lived
sons of fallen angel or dens of vipers. You need to very carefully
evaluate your own standing as a professional before trying to Heavily
Laden the church down with more programs trying to do the social
gospel thing to keep from going out in the cold of the mission
field.
A Fundamental
Question is Do Elders Rule with Power to Appoint
SUPERIORslaves?
New, quick
notes: Do Elders Rule? No. Do preachers rule? No. They don't even
exist unless they are evangelists on DETACHED duty.
No, sweetheart, elders and preachers are not
celestial beings like Moses or Christ.
Biblical Examples
- Miriam Prophetess or Musical Praise
Leader?
- Deborah Military Leader: Her song was chanted at
the Oasis
- Huldah - Prophetess - Librarian?
- Ezekiel 13 - Women in Ministry - Rubel
Shelly
- First Corinthians 14: Women Silent in
Corinth
- 1 Timothy 3:11 - Deaconesses
- Women in Worship - Deaconesses - Lifting Holy
Hands
Major Reason for the Rise of
The Deaconess in 270 A.D. Malchion reported
on the trial of Paul of Samosata who, without authority, had taken
"virgin sisters" to be the "housekeepers" or
Agapetae of Bishops, Elders and Deacons. It is no secret that
there was often a demand for nuns to keep the "officials" off the
wives and daughters. However, the more orderly demanded that
deaconesses as assistants to the officials be vowed virgins or widows
over the age of 60. That should remove the temptation for a too-close
relationship which would have been automatic if male and female
preachers, elders and deacons see the need to huddle and plan and
travel too much.
The Epistle Written by Malchion to Paul of
Samosata
The first mention of
deaconesses in the West occurs in 394 A.D., when a local synod
(Nimes) forbade further ordination of them; possibly the order had
recently been introduced into Gaul from the East.
The office of deaconess in the Western Catholic
church was based on the widow in deed supported by the church and the
perpetual virgin or nun. Authority for the deaconess from these
sources proves more than the moden innovator wants to prove about his
own "office":
Church Councils and
Creeds
Women Deacons (Deaconesses) -
Didascalia (Apostolic
Constitutions)
Apostolic Constitutions
Book 1-VI--Book
VII--Book
VIII
Apostolic Constitutions on Music and
Musicians!
Apostolic Constitutions on Law and
Grace
Deaconesses in the Council of Nicea A.D.
325 Nicaea, 325 A.D. The
clergy of the heretical Paulianist sect returning to the Catholic
fold were required by the council to be rebaptized and
reordained. The same rule was to be observed concerning
deaconesses, who were specially mentioned since some of them
wearing the habit had not received the laying on of hands and therefore
were to be considered
laity (canon XIX).10
Nicean
Creed: Socrates Scholasticus
Deaconess at the Council of Laodicea 364 A.D. Women were forbidden from the priesthood. They also
were prohibited from presiding over churches. They decided that "One
ought not to
establish in the church
the women called overseers (presbutidas)....women must not approach the
altar."
Fourth Synod of Carthage 398
A.D. "A woman, however learned and holy, may
not presume to teach men in an assembly...A woman may not
baptize."
The Council of Chalcedon off site 451
A.D.
Deaconess Council in Trullo Trullo, 692 A.D. (Called
"Quinisext" as being supplemental to the fourth and fifth councils,
which were occupied wholly with the matters of faith.) This
council speaks of the ordination of deaconesses in two canons (XIV
and XLVIII) using the word cheirotoneisthai.
While Pope Sergius did not approve six of the canons of this council,
the canons on deaconesses were accepted.
Deaconesses were in Rome in
the eighth century, if not before. We find a votive tablet erected to the deaconess
Anna by her twin brother Dometius, deacon and treasurer of the Holy
See.
- Church Fathers
- Women Deacons (Deaconesses) -
Tertullian
- Tertullian on music and Spectacle
Worship
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- Catholic
Encyclopedia
- Deacon
in The Catholic Encyclopedia
- Deaconess in the Catholic
Encyclopedia
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- Restoration Movement
- Women and Children Rule when Males Fail (The
Deborah Complex)
- The Public Preaching of Women: Dabney
Presbyteriann
- The Restoration Movement
Leaders Rubel Shelly
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- A Small band of Preacher and
Professors
- Rubel Shelly - Faith Matters - Prophesying
Women in the church of Christ
- New Wineskins Prophetesses
- Rubel Shelly - Faith Matters - Women Worship
Teams
- Rubel Shelly - A Woman's Place - Church of
Christ Assembly Only the preacher
and elder is exempt.
Sowing Discord as Deliberately "navigating the
winds of change.
Richland Hills Church of Christ and the
Deaconess
Those who lust to add to the already
overburdened and unauthorized clergy or minister role have no
Biblical authority. And they have no scholarly authority. The
adaptation of the Greek word "deaconess" which did not exist
originally still never permitted the church to see the work as a
female version of the male deacon.
The proof text for deliberately sowing discord
by fulfilling their own prophecy of "providing a wider role for women
and introducing instruments" is based on their belief that they are
latter day prophets or apostles. However, God warnd:
I have heard what
the prophets said, that prophesy lies in my name, saying, I have dreamed, I have dreamed. Jer 23:25
How long shall this
be in the heart of the prophets that prophesy lies? yea, they are prophets of the deceit of their own
heart; Jer 23: 26
Which think to
cause my people to forget my name by their dreams, which they tell every man to his
neighbour, as their fathers have forgotten my name for Baal. Jer 23:
27
The prophet that hath a dream,
let him tell
(celebrate) a dream; and he that hath my word (dabar), let him speak
my word faithfully. What is the chaff to the wheat? saith the Lord.
Jer 23: 28
Is not my word like as a
fire? saith the Lord;
and like a
hammer that breaketh
the rock in pieces? Jer 23: 29
Therefore, behold,
I am against the prophets, saith the Lord, that steal my words every one from his
neighbour. Jer 23: 30
Behold, I am against the
prophets, saith the Lord, that use their tongues, and say, He saith. Jer 23: 31
Behold, I am
against them that prophesy false dreams, saith the Lord, and do tell
(celebrate) them, and cause my people to err by their lies, and by their lightness (frivolity) ;
yet I sent them
not, nor commanded
them: therefore they shall not profit this people at all, saith the
Lord. Jer 23:32
And when this people, or the
prophet, or a priest, shall ask thee, saying, What is the burden
(singing) of the Lord? thou shalt then say unto them, What burden? I
will even forsake you, saith the Lord. Jer 23: 33
And as for the
prophet, and the priest, and the people, that shall say,
The burden of the
Lord, I will even
punish that man and his house. Jer 23: 34
Thus shall ye say every one to
his neighbour, and every one to his brother, What hath the Lord
answered? and, What hath the Lord spoken? Jer 23: 35
And the burden (song) of the
Lord shall ye mention no more; for every mans word shall be his
burden (song):
for ye have
perverted the words of the living God, of the Lord of hosts our
God. Jer 23: 36
Thus shalt thou say to the
prophet, What hath the Lord answered thee? and, What hath the Lord
spoken? Jer 23: 37
And they "use" women to hunt souls to make them fly
so that they can get a reward.
Kenneth
Sublett: Teacher in Exile
Rubel Shelly
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