Mary Lambert, a sunday school teacher of 54 years, was given the pink slip on August 9 by The First Baptist Church of Wateron, NY. The church made its decision based upon its newly adopted "literal interpretation" of the bible including The apostle Paul's first epsitle to Timothy: "I do not permit a woman to teach or to have authority over a man. . ."
Many churches take an approach to the bible that involves both literal translations and those that take into account the cultural relevancies of that time and the reasons certain books of the bible were written. The nerd word for this approach is heurmanutics.
While a church has the religious freedom to adopt any translation they like, by and large Miss Lambert should not be too suprised by her demotion. Any church organization that has grown men still attending sunday school classes must re-think their teaching staff.
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