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one passage: The mistranslation hinges on the Greek verb, authentein.
I have been a pastor for 35 years and a Christian for 45 years. I now have a house church and left the big church with all its innate competition.

In my honest search of the word authenteo, it seams to have taken me to a sexual connotation, to murder and to dominate. It is clear that Paul was not referring to a man’s right of authority and that the women were abusing his authority… that is an assumption not scripture. If authenteo is a type of women teaching a mixed message with sexual overtones, we have it in Rev 2:20, “Nevertheless I have a few things against you, because you allow that woman Jezebel, who calls herself a prophetess, to teach and seduce My servants to commit sexual immorality and eat things sacrificed to idols.” NKJV

So we have a fact that this practice was done during the first century.

In Mark 10:42-43, we have the perfect usage of the Greek word to “exercise authority over” katexousiazousin. We have a compound word with the preposition kata and the verb exousiazo.

“You know that those who are considered rulers over the Gentiles lord it over them, and their great ones exercise authority over them. Yet it shall not be so among you [including men]; but whoever desires to become great among you shall be your servant.” Mark 10:42-43

If authenteo in the Greek meant authority, why didn’t Paul use it in 1Tim. 2:2, just a few verses up? “Kings and all those in authority”

My first message I preached was “the women should be silent in the church.” I was a young man that accepted the KJV as being infallible. Since then I question many of the words they have used: church, baptize, deacon, office of, apostle, etc..

I have seen God use many women more than He was using me, so what can I say? I needed to follow the evidence and reexamine the scriptures and the Greek. I even thought maybe the men should be silent because of the injustices they have brought into God’s assemblies (church is the wrong word)!!! All through history it has been men that corrupted the assemblies (church), the translations and on and on. We have destroyed body ministry, given names to His assemblies, created deep divisions, organized it to where people don’t even experience friendship let alone first love. I say let the women speak.