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Originally Posted by aron
I've seen that agued both sides, yea and nay. And I've weighed in, myself. But the answers are irrelevant to the fact that Nee & Lee freely used women's techings if it gave their ideas a patina of legitimacy. And once legitimacy was apparently established - "pouf" - women can't teach in the church. Because the Bible says so.
Crass.
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You can't simply take these verses at face value because in other places Paul charges women to teach, or says that they shouldn't speak unless their head is covered. Therefore it is very obvious that Paul is giving a nuanced teaching.
Look at the context of 1tim 2 -- it is about being submissive to the King and the authority that we can live a peaceful life. I liken this chapter to "speaking to the press". I work for the city and we are told very clearly we are not to speak to the press, if the press tries to talk to us we are told who to direct them to. I see this charge about the sister's not usurping authority over a man to be equivalent to being told not to talk to the press.
But regardless of whether you have considered this carefully or not, at the very least you need to realize that this cannot be viewed as a blanket prohibition to speak when there are other places when Paul tells sister's that when they speak they need to do it in a certain way, and then still other places they are charged to teach.