Kristen

Craig, I agree that these commands are universal in the sense that you mean it. But what Paul was saying was directed to one gender and not the other. It is because of this that we must consider his words time/place specific.

Paul could have stated these ideas as universal rules, but the way to do that would have been to say, “Everyone must pray without anger or disputing. Everyone must dress modestly. And no one may teach in such a way as to authentein.”

It is because he APPLIED the universal rules to a specific group (either males or females) that we have to view his intentions as time-place specific. Otherwise, in reading his statements as universal rules WITHOUT a sense of specific application, we would have to infer that only men, universally, need to hear the first rule and only women, universally, need to hear the second and third.

Does that help?