Cheryl Schatz

Patrick,
You also said:

As for the second issue regarding Paul stopping true teaching i would direct you to 1 Corinthians 12-14. Granted it is not ‘teaching’ per se, but nonetheless, clearly spiritual gifts, although being a good God given gift, were being abused and needed to be reined in. Clearly then, Christians can abuse something that otherwise, in different contexts and circumstances, would be a good ministry.

Apparently you can see that true teaching is not the same thing as a half a gift. Paul makes it clear that the public speaking of tongues is always to be attached to public interpretation. But if we were to equate public speaking in tongues and interpretation, Paul never ever said that a woman is not allowed to give a message in tongues with an interpretation because she is a woman. To say that a God-given gift is bad just because of the gender of the person who has the gift or just because of the gender of the person who receives the gift, is something that is never found in the Scriptures.