Paula

This says it all: “someone demanding equality”. The problem, truth to tell, is when someone demands superiority. The “fallen fleshly superiority that you are demanding here” is prideful and domineering.

Tell us, John, what “not so among you” means, or “the greatest must be the least”.

And I could throw all your accusations back at you:

when you rely on feelings to drive your theology…
Just because you have benefited from centuries of male supremacist tradition that discriminates against women under all circumstances does not mean you can shoe horn your interpretation into every spot you can
It is a stretch of that passage that goes far beyond logical reason for a specific agenda. A demanding agenda! (yes, demanding of male preeminence)
But what I do not like is people mishandling Gods word to try and manipulate it to fit their skewed ideology– like asserting male supremacy, even though God does not look on the flesh but on the spirit.
All kinds of groups (such as male supremacists) have latched onto twisted theology in order to manufacture their very own interpretation of God’s word to fit their own fallen agenda!
In God’s economy you do not demand!

Those are all issues you must deal with in your own life.

And no one here is trying to “attempt to use rabbinical tradition to interpret the New Testament”! You have no clue what we’re saying, that much is obvious. You wish to ignore the context is all we’re saying, a context that includes the traditions Paul fought against. We’re saying that he strongly objected to the rabbinical traditions as were being forced on the believers in Corinth. That is the exact opposite of what you accuse us of.

When you use terms like “If anyone believes that, they are spiritually blind”, and when you claim that only YOUR interpretation is right and clear, and you presume to know our motives and judge our hearts, and when you ignore your OWN agenda of male privilege over your brothers and sisters in Christ, you display a pathetic ignorance of what Christian relationships are supposed to be like.

“The harvest is plentiful but the workers are few”, yet many try to hobble half the Body when the need is greatest. We don’t need fewer people spreading the gospel, and we don’t need taskmasters trying to enslave us to man’s rules. Instead of continuing this war against your spiritual equals and co-heirs, why don’t you turn your attention to the lost? Why not focus your energy on contending for the faith instead of beating your fellow servants?