Don

Here is how I would word it.  What we have is an underdetermined problem due to lack of context.  It is possible that the comp scenario for 1 Tim 2-3 is approximately correct and it is possible that the egal scenario is also.  What are we to do in this case, since one cannot be 100% sure?  Neither scenario can be proven wrong but this means neither can be proven correct.

My take is that given there are multiple plausible possibilities, this by itself is enough to caution against making rules from it for all time.  That is, unless the comps can show that their scenario is the ONLY playsible one, then it is a standoff.  A standoff means it is questionable to derive too much doctrine from these verses.