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TaWanda said:
I am really not undrstanding how the scriptures that are plain or being pulled from its context. I take that back I do understand because I understand when the scripture tells us in 2 Timothy 4:3-4 For the time will come when men will not put with sound doctrine. instead, to suit their own desires they will gather around them a great number of teachers to say what their itching ears want to hear.

TaWanda, would you agree that the Scriptures should be read according to authorial intent? That is, what matters is what the original writers (such as Paul) intended their words to mean, and not what it might look like they mean through the layers of translators and cultural changes, right?
Rest assured that the egalitarians who post here love God and follow the Bible. But we do think it’s important to look at the original meanings of the ancient Greek words and at the historical/cultural understandings that would have been shared by Paul and his original audience, which we in the 21st-century US might be misunderstanding. We have come to believe, in all honesty, that the word “head” as Paul meant it is being misunderstood today.
If you want to go ahead and pre-judge us as being unwilling to listen to sound doctrine and with itching ears that want to hear what we want to hear, then you yourself will be unable to listen to or hear us. You will have already decided you know what we are saying. But if you want to give us the benefit of the doubt and listen to where we’re coming from, you might find out that we’re really not as off-the-wall as you think we sound.
I invite you to give us a chance, and find out why we believe what we believe about women in the church and home. I assure you, we are not trying to pull you away from your sincere devotion to Christ. We share that devotion.