Egalitarian responses to the creation order argument

Egalitarian responses include: (1) Westfall argues that creation order does not imply authority — animals were created before Adam, but Adam has authority over them; (2) Others argue Paul is merely correcting a false teaching that Eve was created first (the Artemis cult hypothesis); (3) Some argue Paul is using a rabbinic argument that would have been persuasive in his context but is not binding today. Mike rebuts: (1) The animals argument ignores that God specifically created Adam first, then Eve from Adam, establishing a deliberate relational order — animals are a different category; (2) There is no evidence of an 'Eve was created first' myth in Ephesus; (3) Dismissing Paul's reasoning as merely 'culturally persuasive' undermines the authority of all apostolic argumentation.