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Originally Posted by OBW
I wouldn't take that one too far. The majority of the problems in Christianity over the centuries have been the product of imaginative, hungry, and even evil men.
And like a lot of things, there is debate over how far to take that "women can't teach" thing. It might be for real. But it might have been a societal norm of the time. Tough to tell. Even from Paul's own words.
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I can show you from the Bible it is not "tough to tell" at all. It is perhaps tough to admit, given the "peer pressure" in this age to conform to societies expectations at the risk of being labelled a sexist or otherwise.
1 Tim 2:12 I do not permit a woman to teach or to assume authority over a man; she must be quiet.
is it societal or cultural? Easy to tell
1 Tim 2:13 For Adam was formed first, then Eve.
Paul believed a woman should not teach because she was made after Adam.
There's nothing cultural about that, it's according to God's creation order.