Last Updated on November 2, 2025 by LookingUntoJesus

Hosea 1:2 and 1 Cor. 6:15-16 – do those verses conflict with each other? The answer is no, there are so many verses in the Bible that have clauses in them, which enables God so much freedom to do, as He wants, and just looking at those two verses isn’t the bigger picture. God’s Word doesn’t contradict, and He won’t violate His own nature either but we need to be mindful what this says in Romans 11:33 – “his ways past finding out!” We humans are bound by restrictions, with the way we think, we draw these limits for God that He can only move certain ways, according to a finite knowledge of the Bible. What the Bible shows time after time is that God’s people male or female under a unique anointing goes beyond some ecclesiastical office title, the Lord’s spiritual authority in someone can go above whatever system or limitations that the world has in place. People would say, “just look at the New Testament!” What about the Old Testament? Look at Deborah, avoid looking at just some outward office, is there a unique anointing that made her function the same as a spiritual elder? Where God expressed Himself? It doesn’t depend on some title but how God transcends our thoughts about the guiding functions of His people to what we perceive as a “specific” Divine pattern with only a few variables. God can use as many variables, as possible. Let’s say that we prevent women completely from doing this or that in a church, God has a Divine order that, during emergency situations + other scenarios, He can act and choose, whatever and whoever He wants, He isn’t regulated by any legalism or ordinances, He does what He wants and writes the rules. So if God selects a male or female for a specific role or function, under extraordinary circumstances, and we attempt to quench that, from quoting a small number of verses like I did above to draw a conclusion; I think that’s dangerous. So let’s not sanction the Holy Spirit, from doing what He did with Deborah, and the modern day Deborahs that are denied opportunities because we are unable to see that “Christ is all, and in all” (Col. 3:11). Look at it as whether Christ is governing, in that vessel. Any male or female can be anointed as a vessel of Christ to carry out His prerogative, gender itself didn’t interfere with His purpose. So to summarize everything into one point: ask yourself, “Is this a unique situation, from God’s perspective, and not my own interpretation of events?” As the Bible is filled with a lot of unique events, that defies human thought. We have to make sure that we are seeing the Bible, differently, and not some intellectual assent of ours. The Pharisees asked the Lord what He thought but of plenty times it wasn’t really acknowledging what He said but their own intuitions and how smart they thought they were. In 2 Cor. 3:6, it’s worth to examine, if the Lord is trying to communicate something, an organic spiritual movement from Him that is Spirit-led, don’t just look at things on the appearance (1 Samuel 16:7) and say things like “oh that’s no job for a lady”, I still can’t believe people make decisions like that. Inward seeing what God is looking at and toward ought to be a focus. In 1 Cor. 2:16 – we have to stop being atheistic with our own wisdom and ask Christ, His overall thoughts, seek Him on the matter because we have so many blindspots, can you really understand the abstraction of the Bible? What’s next? We remove eating fruits from trees at church or avoid the colour red or I can’t go hiking in the wilderness because I’ll be more prone to being tempted? How we see things and how God sees the matter is entirely different. If God wanted to do something right now, even like take another Enoch into Heaven, I’m sure He can justify it, and it wouldn’t be contrary to His Word; we don’t understand God’s Word well-enough to determine the limits of His powers and choices. Let the Spirit bear witness, as to whether something is from Him. Look at the Spirit of the Scripture, they are complementary. Whatever God decides, His thoughts are higher than ours, and we need to keep that in mind, when we approach scriptures.