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Dusman = The complementarian (or hierarchical or traditional) position on women in ministry is filled with contradiction because it is based on widely-varying, almost-arbitrary application of 1 verse: 1 Timothy 2:12.

The CBMW book Recovering Biblical Manhood and Womanhood, has a section where they instruct women on how they should speak to men so that they are not “teaching” them. It goes to the bazaar point that if a woman is giving directions to a man she must be very careful not to offend his manly rights of leadership – or something to that effect.

In reality, they were following their premise to it’s logical end. If one believes that the one statement (taken completely out of context) that a woman is not to teach a man, which has absolutely no stated borders, then it must extend to every area of life. This only becomes absurd when one rightly realizes that God has never done that in all of history. In fact God has violated that idea many times.