Mark

gengwell you asked of me

“Mark – what is special about formal church that makes it a setting where women teaching is inappropirate when the identical teaching by a woman in other settings would be deemed appropriate? For example – why can your wife teach you at home, but cannot present the identical teaching to you in formal church? What are the specific differentiators of church vs. other contexts that disqualify women from teaching in church but allow them to teach in those other contexts?”

First of all Paul differentiates. The teahcing restrictions are in the context fo a formal church so that is how i read it. Also the teaching that is presented at home, in studies etc ar not IDENTICAL to that presented in a church. Bible studies are about discussions not 1 person presenting the passage in an expository fashion. Again you are confusing everything in an attept to prove a point, but the reality is, the bible has differentiated such things.
Phillip is evangelising to an un-converted Ethiopian. Paul does the same to Lydia. However this is not the purpose nor the context of 1 Corinthians or 1 Timothy. Lets not confound all the scriptures all the time to always be saying the same thing.

Paul resticts a woman in ‘church’, but admonishes us to be teaching and encouraging and be building each other up. I am simply obeying the bible.