Questions & Answers on The Holy Ghost
Questions 96 (COD Page 434)
Now, the next question is one I think that maybe someone was what I said the other night. Explain a wife being saved by bearing a child.
110 The wife isn’t saved by bearing a child. But let’s turn now to First Timothy 2:8 just a minute. And let’s just find out what the Bible says about the child. Now, I realize that’s a Catholic doctrine, that the Catholic says the woman is saved in childbearing, by bearing a child. But let’s not... I don’t believe that. First Timothy the 2nd chapter, and let’s begin at the 8th verse, and read just a moment now. All right, listen.
In like manner also, that your women adore themselves in modest apparel... (We oughtn’t to ask that, should we? Listen at this.)... with shame facedness... (Whew!)... and sobriety; not with broiding her hair, or gold, or pearls, or costly array; (Brethren, I’m helping you here, I hope. All these new bonnets every day or three days. You see? That ain’t become Christians.)
But (which becometh women professing godliness) with good works.
Let your women learn in silence with all subjections. But I suffer not a woman to teach, or to usurp authority
over... man, but to be... silent.
For Adam was first formed, and then Eve. ... Adam was not deceived, but the woman being
deceived was in the transgression.
Notwithstanding she shall be saved in childbearing if... (Now, he’s not talking to the woman of the world,having babies.)... if she continues in faith... (See?If she continues. She’s already... That’s the womanhe’s talking about, the woman that’s already saved.
See?)... and charity and holiness with all sobriety.
111 Not by having a baby makes her saved, but because that she is raising children, doing her duty, not raising cats, dogs, and whatmore to take the place of a child, as they do today, giving it a mother’s love so that she can go out and run around all night. Some people do that. Sorry, but they do it. That’s awful rude for me to say, but the truth is the truth. See? They don’t want a baby to be tied down with it. But in childbearing, if she continues in faith, holiness, and all sobriety, she’ll be saved. But the if is, you shall be saved too, if you’re borned again. You shall you can be healed if you believe. You can receive the Holy Ghost if you believe It, get ready for It, if you are ready for It. And she shall be saved if she keeps doing these things (see?), but not because she’s a woman. So that’s right, brother, sister. It isn’t a Catholic teaching at all. Now I want... Here’s another one which is a very sticky one. Then we’ve got one more. I think maybe we have time for it. I just took up our time. Now, this is just-this is just the aftereffects of the revival. This is the aftereffects of the meeting, these questions.