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Originally Posted by ZNPaaneah

My 1st Corinthians says 14:34 "Let your women keep silence in the churches: for it is not permitted unto them to speak; but they are commanded to be under obedience, as also saith the law."

Now I personally think that this law was based on a social situation that has changed quite a bit in the last 2,000 years.

But even if you feel this rule no longer applies it doesn't negate the fact that some in the congregation were not permitted to speak during the meeting and they were required to be under obedience. So if you want to use 1Cor 14 as a yardstick there was a vetting of speakers and there was a required submission concerning who spoke and who didn't.

We may not like what ZNP just posted. And we may argue that some of it is cultural and no longer applicable. But you have to get out your verse removal shears if you just want to ignore it and declare that there is no place for authority and submission. (Still nothing like the authority and submission as defined by Nee in his book of two names — Spiritual Authority, and Authority and Submission.)