Charis

Don said:
The point is that Paul is talking about people in a congregation setting. If you reverse engineer the phrases, it means some men were getting angry and some women were wearing ostentatious rich clothes.

All those other things are true, but not the point of this passage.

What is troubling me is that is appears that you are making these scriptures only relevant to the contemporaries to whom it was written?

Was it written to them, and for the reasons Cheryl has concluded? I think it is completely plausible!

Did Paul know how his words would be twisted and misused as a straitjacket on women? I’m quite sure Paul did not know that!

Did God know? I’m quite sure God knew! (and works it together for the good for those who love HIM and are called according to HIS purpose in order that they may be conformed to the image of CHRIST 🙂 )

The prophets of the OT had contemporary fulfillment and future fulfillment. I think God’s Word in the NT can be multidimensional like that:

2Ti 3:16 All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness:

Heb 4:12 For the word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any twoedged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.