Alison

This was awesome. I’ve read parts 1 and 2, and gained a whole lot of light on that passage, and others in Paul’s writings that seem to put women down. I think the interview exposes a whole lot of his most likely real intention: solving particular problems. He’s not saying “This is the way it MUST be until Christ comes again”; he’s merely saying “This is how I want you to deal with this issue among your congregation”. To try to derive an immutable universal principle from a circumstantial teaching is like trying to make a cat into a dog. It simply can’t be done, unless you want to violate the whole of the Scriptural witness, to say nothing of putting your opinions into the Holy Spirit’s mouth!