Lydia

“Oh, and Mark: isn’t our relationship with God between two persons?”

This is the WHOLE point! Why do women need a layer between them and their Savior? Why are they not allowed to fully mature in spiritual things but must be “under” the authority of another male believer? This would mean our spiritual growth would be hindered to whatever our “authority” is. This seeks to replace the Holy Spirit in our lives. It is simply not spiritually logical from the point of view of the Cross which tore the veil in two. Women are “adult” believers. Not perpetual children who must have a daddy figure.

There is no way our scriptures teach this. It is simply very bad translating. The translators were not inerrant. But the Word is. That is a major reason we need the indwelling Holy Spirit to illuminate the truth in the Word to us. Otherwise women are not really a full participating part of the “priesthood”. And some folks want us to believe that only men get some sort of special anointing that women cannot have. Or if they do, they must supress it or it will be sin. Insidious@! Satan loves this.