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More thoughts…

“The idea that you put forth that allows woman to lead, teach, and exercise authority over men is based on me not having a “law” to back up my position. I’m really not trying to be mean hear, but I’m just reading what it says and trying to apply it. I don’t think it can be explained away that women were falsely teaching or any other explanation the make the passage to mean exactly the opposite of what it says. I agree that v.11 through 15 go together and that v. 15 is a hard verse to understand, but I don’t think we can say because the end of that passage is difficult, let’s just throw out verse 12.”

Is V12 a law itself or not? IF the verse is a law and IF it does mean that women are not to teach and have/exercise authority over men in the church then the comp understanding would be that it should be obeyed. But if it’s not a law, then what is it? A prohibition that can just be ran over by women and such is acceptable to God? This is why it is important whether or not what Mike speaks of (particularily v12) is a law commanded by God.