Re: Deception versus Willful sin.
I think it's funny how everyone is arguing for a prescriptive reading of the bible when we discuss the matter of the church in the city, but on the matter of females in the church all of the descriptive examples come out.
The verse about Deborah is descriptive and it is unclear whether that Old Testament example can be overlayed onto the New Testament church. I say not, because Paul's commands regarding women are prescriptive commands, and using the prescriptive versus descriptive rules that people on this forum seem to like, Paul's New Testament commands take precedence over any descriptive examples you could come up with from the Old Testament.
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