What Does “Women Will Be SAVED THROUGH CHILDBEARING” Mean?
Let’s read the passage:
But women will be saved through childbearing—if they continue in faith, love and holiness with propriety.
More literally, women will be saved through the childbearing, a reference to the incarnation of Christ — the birth of Yeshua into this world. Recall what the LORD prophesied over satan during the Genesis curse:
And I will put enmity
between you [satan] and the woman,
and between your offspring and hers [Christ];
he [Christ] will crush your head,
and you will strike his heel.”
The mighty Messiah crushed satan’s head through his birth, death and resurrection. As it is written: “The reason the Son of God appeared was to destroy the devil’s work” (1 John 3:8).
This is the obvious translation of the verse since the idea that women are saved through merely bearing children doesn’t even make sense. What about they myriad believing women who don’t have children for one reason or another? Not to mention, the idea that women are saved through the act of childbearing would mean that salvation is attained through works, which doesn’t mesh with the fact that the Scriptures plainly teach we are saved by God’s graciousness through faith in Christ, not by works, although genuine faith always results in works (Ephesians 2:8-9 & James 2:14-26).
Paul’s additional statement that women will be saved through the childbearing of Christ “if they continue in faith, love and holiness with propriety” merely points to the necessity of persevering in faith, which he stressed elsewhere to all believers, not just women (Colossians 1:22-23 & 1 Corinthians 15:2). After all, if it takes faith to be saved, it naturally follows that someone cannot be saved if they come to a point where they no longer believe due to neglecting the feeding of their faith. See this article for details.
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