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Push back on kephale as 'source': even if source, it still implies authority; verses 11-12 prove too much

All The Head Covering Debates (1 Cor 11): Women in Ministry part 10 01:47:02 – 01:49:37

Mike addresses two independent problems with the source interpretation.

Problem 1: Even if kephale means source, it still carries a connotation of authority. No egalitarian has properly addressed this. Problem 2: If verse 8 merely says man is woman's source, then verses 11-12 (where woman is also man's source through childbirth) would make woman man's kephale too. But Paul never says this -- in Ephesians 5, man is the head, woman is the body. So the source interpretation creates a contradiction with Paul's other writings.

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