Author: Patricia Erlandsen

The Male Establishment And The Token Woman Fits The Complementarian View Of Scripture  The Complementarian model (read, ‘sexist’) requires women who are obedient, submissive, and compliant. ‘Christian femininity’ is a socially constructed image that has been carefully modelled by pastor’s wives and other token women in the public eye.  It fits in with the image taught from the Complementarian view...

SUNDAY, 17 JAN 2021 Read Part A Here Recognising the Signs That Lead You either To Spiritual Death or Spiritual Life.  One can easily recognise the signs that lead you either to spiritual death or spiritual life. Organisations such as those that become formalised quench the Spirit. With them comes authoritarian male-leadership. These are always accompanied by slow spiritual death. ...

SUNDAY, 10 JAN 2021 In memory of Alexandra Easte: her faithful pursuit of the study of the Word to show herself approved as an Able Minister of the Gospel. My initial experience I have been in Christian service for 50 years. My initial experience in the first years of service to the Lord in the local church (1972-1983) proved I...

Read previous parts HERE The Freedom Papers No. 1 Part 6 For example, to teach that Eve was deceived therefore all women are easily deceived and need a ‘covering’ to control them, has no basis. Eve is accused of being responsible for the fall.  This is not found in scripture where it clearly states the man was solely responsible (Rom...

Read previous posts HERE The Freedom Papers No. 1 Part 5 The recent work by Dr. Ann Nyland ‘who notes the comment by Dr. L.S Fried, the University of Michigan that the ‘careful and exhaustive study of contemporary Greek papyri and inscriptions renders other New Testament translations obsolete’. Nyland develops this thought in her introduction. For centuries, the meanings of...

It is to our great disadvantage that the church ignores the research Mickelsen, Cervin and Nyland, shed on the interpretation of ‘kephale’.  Many church leaders know these most recent findings and the twenty and more years of debate but have refused to bring it to the attention of the church. For example, Mickelsen, Cervin, Nyland, and others cited in Nyland’s...

Read the previous posts HERE The correct translation of the word ‘head’ in the NT (Greek word ‘kephale’) is the controlling key to unlocking doors of prejudice and ignorance. Most wonderfully, it returns Christ to His rightful place of authority in the lives of all believers as their Lord, Leader, and Teacher. God has given all authority, in heaven and...

Read the first part HERE and the second part HERE Sunday short-read 15 November 2020 As an introduction to the subject of equality in the church and home, this paper will also draw attention to the various arguments surrounding the debate and expose the flaws in the teachings put forward by the Complementary view. Once understood, this paper can become...