4015 — By the Child-Bearing
By Editor
Does 1 Tim. 2:15 mean that women must give birth to children in order to be saved? T. C. B. No, it means nothing of the kind. God demands no such unreasonable conditions of any portion of His children. This is akin to the Mormon doctrine that a woman can not be saved unless she is tied to some man. It seems to us that a good many will be saved in spite of the men; for if there is any agency that is endeavoring to drag women down to destruction, it is man. We like the thought that is in the text, that she shall be saved by the Child-bearing. We learn before this that "Adam was not deceived, but the woman being deceived was in the transgression." Eve was deceived by the serpent, and disobeyed. Adam was not deceived, but yielded to the temptation in order that he might not forsake his wife. But God by His grace declared that through the Seed of the woman the serpent's head should be crushed. It is in belief of that Seed that the woman shall be saved,—by the Child-bearing of the Lord Jesus Christ. And her faith in that Person born through woman, if she continue in faith and charity and holiness, with sobriety, as every one must, will bring salvation to her through Him, the Seed of the woman.