Kristen

James, I am not the blog owner, nor am I the author of this post. That would be Cheryl. I simply saw your comment in the recent comments section, and responded– that is all.

I appreciate your words about 1 Cor 14; I was aware of that interpretation already.

I don’t think we can see eye to eye on Genesis 2-3. The words “help meet” in the Hebrew are “ezer kenegdo.” Almost every other time “ezer” is used, it refers to God as the “help” of humankind. “Ezer” implies no inferiority, but means “strong aid.” “Kenedgo” means “facing him.” So “help meet” would be better rendered, “face-to-face strong aid.”

The passage about the temptation says Adam was right there with Eve when she took from the tree. And she didn’t “offer” him the fruit, she “gave” it to him. There is no indication she had to talk him into taking it. The Bible is silent on whether Adam heard what the serpent said, but the way the story is put together seems to imply that he was standing right there with her throughout the entire temptation, and he certainly was with her when she took the fruit.

I have no idea what Luke 17, about Jesus meeting the lepers, has to do with Genesis 2.

To say the Bride is taken from the Body of Christ is odd. The church is the bride; the Church is also the body. She is not “taken from” the body.

If the issue is our salvation and the Kingdom to come, the silencing of women has no place in either one. If women are not to be free in the Kingdom, then they are never to be free. But it is for freedom that Christ set us ALL free– so I will not be subject to a yoke of bondage. Gal. 5:1. In Christ there is not male or female, for we are all one in Christ, and all adopted as sons (this phrase in the original Greek meant we ALL have the rights and privileges pertaining to freeborn male citizens. There are no differences in rights and privileges in the Kingdom). Galations 3:28-4:6. The Bible should not be used as a gag on the mouths of half the church.

The issue of the church’s submission to Christ, as it relates to wives’ submission to husbands, is a complex one. I do not disagree about wives’ submission, but this passage has been interpreted to mean many things which it doesn’t actually say; and the cultural-historical context, as well as the context of this passage within the whole letter to Ephesus, has been largely ignored, in order to subordinate women unjustly. I suggest you read Cheryl’s other posts on this topic.

For the rest, I find your way of writing confusing and indirect. Why not just come out and say what you mean?