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To SM (335)
My thanks that you have attempted to comment on (239). Clearly we were not on the same page, and this is why it was so vital to address this before moving on – without finding common ground of agreement no dialogue can ever be clearly communicative.

Regarding your comments I will start only with the most basic element to seek to establish common ground:
I did not say that Paul “attempted to differentiate between husbands and wives” – I said that Paul’s instructions did differentiate between husbands and wives. That is, he addressed both individually and gave them different instructions. This is in the text directly. (You keep trying to jump ahead to what you presume my argument will be without following the argument itself – one must always read an argument for what it actually is.) If you refuse to acknowledge this then I fear no further progress can be made. In fact you yourself acknowledge this “differentiation” but attribute it to culture – that’s a valid hypothesis, but to even make such a hypothesis you first must acknowledge differentiation. Until you can actually do that nothing else that I can say will make sense.

So, can we agree on this point?

The apostle Paul gave different and distinct instructions to husbands and wives.