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Originally Posted by Evangelical
On the topic of women the example of Deborah and others are descriptive and yet Pauls prescriptive commands deny female leadership. To me if you want to be consistent in your application of the prescriptive vs descriptive passages you should also deny the old testament descriptions and just follow Pauls commands which the Greek NT scholars tell us are weighty.
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The problem with your take on the OT descriptives are that you omit a huge part of the description. The OT description is not simply an account of a woman rising up without being stuck dead by God for daring to stand against a rule, but God raised her up. She wasn't just the preacher in some assembly installed by the members or a denominational board. God did it.
Then you say that Paul prescribed. Yes he did. In a particular instance. And yet his own descriptions stand in sharp contrast to that prescription. Therefore it is safe to assume that the prescription was for a case of sickness rather than a rule to apply in all times.
As for your claim the "the Greek NT scholars" tell us that Paul's commands are weighty, have you considered that the correct statement is "
SOME Greek NT scholars" consider Paul's commands weighty (in the manner that you seek to infer them). The fact that there are significant Greek and other NT scholars who do not find Paul's command on this to be understood as universally applicable.
You do not seek truth. You seek confirmation of the position you want to take. My position is no longer like yours because I was exposed to the evidence that the "prescriptions" you assert were not intended as universal and permanent. Because of that, my position has changed.