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I don't recall the scriptures but perhaps they were addressed to the immediate apostles?
No. Paul's letters were instructions to various peoples which he had, or was hoping to, convert.
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I don't remember anything said about women's judgement being inferior to men's.
(1 Tim 2:13-14 NRSV) For Adam was formed first, then Eve; and Adam was
not deceived, but the woman
was deceived and became a transgressor.
Please note the use of the word "for" above. Below is the list of rules regarding women's behavior, and the above statement is the justification.:
(1 Cor 14:34 NRSV) women should be silent in the churches. For they are not permitted to speak, but should be subordinate, as the law also says.
(1 Cor 14:35 NRSV) If there is anything they desire to know, let them ask their husbands at home. For it is shameful for a woman to speak in church.
(1 Tim 2:11 NRSV) Let a woman learn in silence with full submission.
(1 Tim 2:12 NRSV) I permit no woman to teach or to have authority over a man; she is to keep silent.
Good Christian women, according to the NT, must submit to men, learn in silence, and are forbidden to teach or have authority over any man, because Eve was deceived and became a transgressor.
This is what the Bible directs, mike.
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I know what you're doing, young woman. You're trying to say I have a double standard.
There is no try, mike.
Only do.
And I have.
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That I disregard some biblical musings etc.
Hey, you are the one who said he followed God's rules regardless of "man's way" or somesuch.
There's more...
1 Cor 1:3 But I would have you know, that the head of every man is Christ; and the
head of the woman is the man; and the head of Christ is God.
Eph 5:24 Therefore as the church is subject unto Christ, so let the wives be to their own husbands in every thing
Clo 3:18 Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as it is fit in the Lord.
Tim 2:9 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;
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...I don't go to church but if I did, there might be found the best way, to observe the rules. It might be that there is an inexplicable reason for why things work best under certain guidelines.
Whatever, mike.
Just answer the questions.
Do you follow the Biblical rules regarding women or not?
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For example, men might be right-thumber, and so therefore can preach a better wisdom, or something like that.
In mike-church the women can only wear bikinis, and they can only use tongues.(pun intended)
But it's what God says that counts, not what mike says.
Right, mike.
I just told you what Paul says that God says. I just gave you a whole bunch of unambiguous directives straight from the NT.
Do you accept them or not?
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But what do you say? How would you say I was going wrong as a believer concerning this issue?
As a believer? I have no idea how or if you are going wrong. That's not for me to determine.
But I can tell you that you have a double sandard, saying that you refuse to condone homosexuality because of the Bible, yet ignoring the Bible's repeated and clear commands of women.
In fact, the Bible is much more adamant regading the submission of women to men if the number of times such a directive is repeated is any indication.
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