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“Paul meant his words to be time/place specific, but they are actually applicable universally. So the men in the church at Ephesus had a particular problem with anger during prayer, and Paul was addressing this, but it is always applicable that men should pray without anger. I was including this third alternative as universal where as I think you would see it as still time/place specific.”

A little confusing. Anything that replicates a specific situation can read into the same admonition to correct it. But we cannot thus change the admonition to be universal. The admonition was event and possibly person specific. If some other person did the same things (which unfortunately we don’t know the exact and full mistakes) then it would seem reasonable that Paul’s suggestion that this woman(women) learn and stop teaching with authentein would apply. But there are other alternatives as well. There is not only one way to handle individuals female or male when they dominate others in their teaching. We see that in chapter one. Certain men were turned over to Satan to learn.

This was a personal letter. Yes we can learn a great deal from it. Christians really need to get off the legalistic bandwagon. We cannot make everything into a law. There are many ways to handle a situation of offense. Paul gave some examples. But there are other examples. Jesus mentioned some. The OT mentioned some.