john

Cheryl said:

“What is being said is that Paul quotes from the letter sent to him from the Corinthians (see 1 Cor. 7:1) and then refutes the quote in 1 Cor. 14:36.  Therefore the injunction for women to be silent that appears in the oral law is not held by Paul but rejected by Paul”

I say:

This is a personal interpretation of your own, which does not hold to the context of the chapter nor the wider 1 Corinthians letter! Paul is not quoting froma letter sent to him in reply to the Corinthians!

Paul is speaking his words to the Corinthians!

Again you are mishandling this passage out of personal desire to see earthly equality in roles for men and women!

While true Paul was not forbiddding women from ever speaking or asking questions in a gathering of a Church body. What he was saying was that Wives in public should give deference to their husbands and not shame them by being unruly!

Yes they may ask questions, yes they may speak, and yes they may prophecy or speak in tongues, but it was all to be done in good order and in respect of the roles for husband and wife.

And for women to be in good order in a gathering of the Church Body was to not be unruly and therefore shame their husbands!

I have never said that women should not preach, teach or speak in Church! What I am saying though as The Apostle Paul says in this passage which is from God’s Written law is that women are not to appear as unruly in public thereby shaming their husband.

If a husband agree’s that his wife should preach, so be it, but she still must be under the spiritual leadership of her husband and honor her husband in that role! And then God will honor her in her preaching!