TL

WOW! M. Seaver. I’m really rather shocked to read you comparing women teaching men to be comparable to men having sexual relationships with one another.

Would you please explain how women can teach truth and be in sin. Also, at what point does a woman become sinful in teaching this truth. How does that work? If you say it is when a man listens to her, then it is the man who is sinning by listening and not the woman who speaks truth. Then how does one judge what is being taught if it is sinful to hear a woman’s voice teaching. Or you could perhaps seek out a verse where it is sin for a woman to speak in the presence of men. After all if they learned something from her, they would be in sin as well as her …. IMO that is the confusion of this stance.

This sounds very much like an old oral teaching of the Rabbi’s where they claimed that it was an abomination to hear a woman’s voice read the Torah. And that is just preferential bias at work.

All in all , this is not good exegesis. Good exegesis starts with reading something in context. To find the context in the 1 Tim. 2 verse, one needs to read in chapter one where the foundation is laid. …. and so on. 🙂