Kristen

Good points, Elaine. This has been troubling me ever since Jeremy’s last response, and I have debated about saying it, but in all honesty I think I must– when he said, ” If I could see a true way of interpreting these passages that favored the egalitarian position, I would gladly shift sides,” I thought he meant he was open to egalitarian exegesis. His quick dismissal of our questions and our exegesis does not seem like openness to to me. If he were open, he would continue to ask questions and raise issues, not simply say, “I don’t agree with the arguments, but I feel like it might be pointless to go around on this.”

Jeremy, if you’re still reading– you’re never going to find any “true way of interpretating these passages that favors the egalitarian position” if you remain closed in your mind to the issues egalitarians raise and the the points they make. You did not address the points I made; you simply dismissed them. That makes your statement about being willing to switch sides, seem disingenous.