Bible Questions Answered: Childbearing And Salvation

Bible Questions Answered:
I see that Paul says a woman can be saved by childbearing, why does he say that?
Jacob/ Jesup, Georgia

Bible Answers:
The scripture to which you refer is I Timothy chapter two, but we would do well do see the context of this verse.

I Timothy 2:8-15 KJV (The Apostle Paul)
[8] I will therefore that men pray every where, lifting up holy hands, without wrath and doubting.
[9] In like manner also, that women adorn themselves in modest apparel, with shamefacedness and sobriety; not with broided hair, or gold, or pearls, or costly array;
[10] But (which becometh women professing godliness) with good works.
[11] Let the woman learn in silence with all subjection.
[12] But I suffer not a woman to teach, nor to usurp authority over the man, but to be in silence.
[13] For Adam was first formed, then Eve.
[14] And Adam was not deceived, but the woman being deceived was in the transgression.
[15] Notwithstanding she shall be saved in childbearing, if they continue in faith and charity and holiness with sobriety.

I Timothy 2:8-15 NLT
8 In every place of worship, I want men to pray with holy hands lifted up to God, free from anger and controversy.
9 And I want women to be modest in their appearance.
They should wear decent and appropriate clothing and not draw attention to themselves by the way they fix their hair or by wearing gold or pearls or expensive clothes.
10 For women who claim to be devoted to God should make themselves attractive by the good things they do.
11 Women should learn quietly and submissively.
12 I do not let women teach men or have authority over them. Let them listen quietly.
13 For God made Adam first, and afterward He made Eve.
14 And it was not Adam who was deceived by Satan. The woman was deceived, and sin was the result.
15 But women will be saved through childbearing, assuming they continue to live in faith, love, holiness, and modesty

“Notwithstanding she shall be saved in childbearing, if they continue in faith and charity and holiness with sobriety.” KJV

Translators, have since said that the preposition “in,” should be the word “through,” and thus reading...
“Notwithstanding she shall be saved “through” childbearing, if they continue in faith and charity and holiness with sobriety."

Women, though they will have much sorrow in conception and bringing forth children, they they will go on to be saved, if they continue if faith.

Bringing children into the world, doesn't save, only the blood of Christ can save anyone.

Romans 5:9 KJV
Much more then, being now justified by His blood, we shall be saved from wrath through Him.

I John 1:7 KJV
But if we walk in the light, as He is in the light, we have fellowship one with another,
and the blood of Jesus Christ His Son cleanseth us from all sin.

Just as Adam, and all men after him will be saved through thorns and thistles, if they continue in faith.

The curse of sin:

Genesis 3:13-19 KJV
[13] And the LORD God said unto the woman, What is this that thou hast done? And the woman said, The serpent beguiled me, and I did eat.
[14] And the LORD God said unto the serpent, Because thou hast done this, thou art cursed above all cattle, and above every beast of the field; upon thy belly shalt thou go, and dust shalt thou eat all the days of thy life:

[15] And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise His heel.

[16] Unto the woman he said, I will greatly multiply thy sorrow and thy conception; in sorrow thou shalt bring forth children; and thy desire shall be to thy husband, and he shall rule over thee.

[17] And unto Adam he said, Because thou hast hearkened unto the voice of thy wife, and hast eaten of the tree, of which I commanded thee, saying, Thou shalt not eat of it: cursed is the ground for thy sake; in sorrow shalt thou eat of it all the days of thy life;
[18] Thorns also and thistles shall it bring forth to thee; and thou shalt eat the herb of the field;
[19] In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground; for out of it wast thou taken: for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return.


There is another explanation of I Timothy 2:15, and it is as follows.
"Notwithstanding she shall be saved through childbearing, if they continue in faith and charity and holiness with sobriety."

This may well be an allusion by the Apostle, to an early Genesis prophecy concerning the Lord Jesus Christ.

Genesis 3:15 KVJ
And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise His heel.

Genesis 3:15 NET
And I will put hostility between you (The serpent) and the woman and between your offspring and her offspring(Christ, the seed of the woman-Mary.); her offspring will attack your head,and you will attack her offspring’s heel.

We have often said that the way to kill a snake, is to smash it's head.
The day is coming when the head of Satan, and all his evil entourage, will meet their end in the lake of fire and brimstone.

Revelation 21:7,8 KJV
[7] He that overcometh shall inherit all things; and I will be His God, and he shall be My son.
[8] But the fearful, and unbelieving, and the abominable, and murderers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone: which is the second death.

Satan, struck at Christ, (the seed of the woman), but He arose, victorious the King of Salvation.

Isaiah 53:1-12 KJV
[1] Who hath believed our report? and to whom is the arm of the LORD revealed?
[2] For He shall grow up before Him as a tender plant, and as a root out of a dry ground: He hath no form nor comeliness; and when we shall see Him, there is no beauty that we should desire Him.
[3] He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief: and we hid as it were our faces from Him; He was despised, and we esteemed Him not.
[4] Surely He hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows: yet we did esteem Him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted.
[5] But He was wounded for our transgressions, He was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon Him; and with His stripes we are healed.
[6] All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way; and the LORD hath laid on Him the iniquity of us all.
[7] He was oppressed, and He was afflicted, yet He opened not His mouth: He is brought as a lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep before her shearers is dumb, so He openeth not His mouth.
[8] He was taken from prison and from judgment: and who shall declare His generation? for He was cut off out of the land of the living: for the transgression of my people was He stricken.
[9] And He made His grave with the wicked, and with the rich in His death; because He had done no violence, neither was any deceit in His mouth.
[10] Yet it pleased the LORD to bruise Him; He hath put Him to grief: when thou shalt make His soul an offering for sin, He shall see His seed, He shall prolong His days, and the pleasure of the LORD shall prosper in His hand.
[11] He shall see of the travail of His soul, and shall be satisfied: by His knowledge shall My Righteous Servant justify many; for He shall bear their iniquities.
[12] Therefore will I divide Him a portion with the great, and He shall divide the spoil with the strong; because He hath poured out His soul unto death: and He was numbered with the transgressors; and He bare the sin of many, and made intercession for the transgressors.

Romans 8:11 KJV
But if the Spirit of Him that raised up Jesus from the dead dwell in you, He that raised up Christ from the dead shall also quicken your mortal bodies by His Spirit that dwelleth in you.

I Timothy 2:15 KJV
Notwithstanding she shall be saved through childbearing, if they continue in faith and charity and holiness with sobriety.

Through the birth of a child, the world has a way of salvation.

Isaiah 9:6 KJV
For unto us a Child is born, unto us a Son is given: and the government shall be upon His shoulder: and His name shall be called Wonderful, Counseller, The Mighty God, The Everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace. (What kind of Father?-An Everlasting one, no beginning and no end!)

Matthew 1:20,21 KJV
[20] But while he(Joseph)thought on these things, behold, the angel of the Lord appeared unto him in a dream, saying, Joseph, thou son of David, fear not to take unto thee Mary thy wife: for that which is conceived in her is of the Holy Ghost.
[21] And she shall bring forth a son, and thou shalt call His name JESUS: for he shall save His people from their sins.

Luke 2:11 KJV
For unto you is born this day in the city of David a Saviour, which is Christ the Lord.

Galatians 4:4 KJV
But when the fulness of the time was come, God sent forth His Son, made of a woman, made under the law,

Acts 4:12 KJV
Neither is there salvation in any other: for there is none other name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved.

I Corinthians 3:11 KJV
For other foundation can no man lay than that is laid, which is Jesus Christ.