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Mike gives an extended reading and defense of 1 Corinthians 11 on head coverings, arguing the text is about role differentiation within a framework of equal personal value, not about female inferiority, and that charging God with sexism reflects moral overreach toward the Creator.

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You may have noticed in the last section of WIM that I say that equality does not mean unisex. Women are different than men and that is the way that God planned it. Woman was created to meet a man’s n...

This is a Great Article by The Berean Call! The article goes well with your quote Cheryl! Quote: Satan has confused matters by bringing ungodly women into the secular women’s movement who not only ha...

Hi, new here. [though I have read off and on] I come from that Radical Feminist camp [years of study/and I still advocate on women’s rights issues] so I’d like to address some things here. Because th...

Well, right now I’m in a bible study group (is was suppose to be all Women/Only Women) I broke through that wall Praise Jesus. When we went around to tell alittle about ourselfs. I said in Love with a...

There’s a website called Christians for Biblical Equality. I’m not affiliated with them. I mention it because they have outstanding scholarly articles about the passages used in the debate regarding w...

@Ramon The only time that the word “man” is used in 1 Timothy 3:1-7 and Titus 1:6-9 is in the phrase “a one woman man”. This is often translated into English as “the husband of one wife”. While this ...

“God’s word transcend time and culture. Just because women roles have changed in the world does not mean they change in the Body of Christ. It is apparent that the church has been influenced by the wo...

@Mark While the Greek word diakonos literally means “servant”, Paul only ever used diakonos in his letters in the context of a minister. It is blatant bias to change the translation from “minister” ...

@Ramon “Speak where the Bible speaks and where the Bible is silent then so should we.” If you follow this precept then how is it that you believe that the husband is the head of the family. I do not...

@ Dave Hi! 100 yay! 😀 @ Mark 91 In New Testament parlance a servant (diakonos) IS a minister, and vice versa! So I agree with you on that. I only diasagree with your conclusions about Phoebe, and I a...

Dear Cheryl Schatz! I have red all. And maybe I would like to add some divine thought from a divine point of view. First of All let’s we go to the early stage of the ‘Creation’. Everything that God di...

(First time poster, glad to find another believer in Biblical equality) I’ve never understood how the idea that women will “desire to rule” men has any staying power. I’m a survivor of eight years of...

I appreciated your insight as to the importance for humanity that Eve had to come from Adam, otherwise there would be two humanities. Of course, it raises issues about hierarchy and equality as well. ...

HI Cheryl, This seems really complex for something i have found never to be an issue. The tension i find with your position is like all ‘theories’ you can set them up to mean what you intend the outc...

Thanks for your succinct response Cheryl. 1 Tim 3 is ridiculously ‘obvious’ to me. Just as you say… that if you take the ‘one-woman man’ bit ‘literally’, you have to take the others bits likewise – w...

@Craig The Greek phrase “a one woman man” (usually translated into English as “the husband of one wife”) was a very common idiom and as Don mentioned was often found on gravesite inscriptions. The i...

Dear Cheryl: I have just encountered your magnificent work on WIM, and I am completely sympathetic (as a Calvinistic Baptist ordained by one of their SBC churches in 1979). I also wrote a chapter in I...

What would be the best reference/lexicon to use to show that kephale can mean source or origin in koine Greek? As you know things are much easyer to search out in this day an age with computers. Ther...

Phrase “sons of God” I always throught it this way if men are “Sons of God” then women are Daugthers of God, we are all Heirs etc. But Now I see this Male imagery and why women are used in it, to sh...

I think I would add to point #1 that we do not want to see men usurp authority over women either. I have asked the same question of those who believe that certain men in the church have an authority ...