We don't really know if the Proverbs 31 woman had young children or not. Nor do we know much about Deborah other than she was married and that she was a leader in Israel.
I think I disagree with you Theresa about there being a biblical mandate for a woman NOT to hold a leadership position. And certainly a woman who is in a leadership position, raising children, married for 20+ years might be in a great position to "teach the young women to be sober, to love their husbands, to love their children, [To be] discreet, chaste, keepers at home, good, obedient to their own husbands, that the word of God be not blasphemed”
I don't think that there is any biblical pattern showing mothers of young children becoming career moms, chief magistrates and leading nations of three hundred million, nor do I think that this is the ideal to which young women should aspire.
At a time when motherhood and marriage is so under attack, the message Republicans are sending is this: Winning political elections is more important than the following proposition given by the Lord.
“That they may teach the young women to be sober, to love their husbands, to love their children, [To be] discreet, chaste, keepers at home, good, obedient to their own husbands, that the word of God be not blasphemed” (Titus 2:4-5).”
Does the Word of God give us the liberty to place a woman into a political office where she will in some sense bear rule over us in the civil sphere? Is it biblically proper for a woman to hold political office, and thus rule over men? Has God ordained women to be civil leaders, or has He reserved this authority for men only?
I believe that the Bible gives a definitive answer to this question: women are not permitted by God to hold political office and rule over men in the political sphere.
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