Mark

Gengwell,

Thanks for answering my question 1. Perhaps you or someone else can address question 2? Thanks for your interpratation of 1 Tim aswell, although i wasn’t referencing that… just trying to get an answer to my particular questions.

Also you make some strong claims…”The idea of a hierarchical authority structure as God’s design is completely man made. (Actually, it is Satan made). ” I so often here egals say this- just repeating what some egal has said in a book, but i dont see the point! I could equally say the same about egalitarianism that it is ‘man made’, but both are actually un-helpful to the arguments or attempts to understand the passages. It is merely a sludging match.

Like i said earlier, i am reading through ‘ Discovering Biblical Equality’ atm. I just finished reading the essay on Gen 1-3. There are most definately things ‘read into’ and ‘man made’ in Richard Hess’ interpretation of these passages. But that might have to be discussed in a different blog.