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Cheryl always strays from the physical (male female) distinctions to the spiritual (sonship).

Mark, male, female distinctions of the flesh have absolutley nothing to do with one’s sonship.

To answer gengwell, some roles are spiritual and some are physical. A father for example is a physical one. A pastor is both.

Gifts (pastor, teacher, leader) aren’t roles based on gender but gifts given based on sonship (see Galatians). So a pastor “role” is not both physical and spiritual since it is only given based on one’s sonship not one’s gender. The problem then is with comp terminology – use of “roles” and the division of gifts based along gender lines rather than the spiritual. Comp thought makes gifts of the spiritual out to be “roles” therefore out to be “roles” of the flesh since “roles” are determined in comp thought by the flesh (gender). If “gifts” (spiritual) weren’t made into comp “roles” (physical, men lead and women follow) most of the confusion wouldn’t exist.