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Mark – “However whether or not God gives us seperate roles is another matter, which does not detract from the spritual equality.”
Lin – “That is not true. And it makes no sense. ”

Unless Mark is looking at the “roles” themselves as not having a bearing on spirituality.

Mark – do you consider the role of pastor/teacher to be a spiritual one? If you do, then Lin is right: you can not claim there is spiritual equality between the genders and then turn around and say a specific gender can not equally fulfill their spiritual calling. But, if the “job” of pastor/teacher is just an earthly occupation then, discirmination or not, how society fills that occupation has no bearing on spiritual matters. But, of course, I doubt Mark has such a low view of pastor/teacher.