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Originally Posted by Nell
"Evidence" is in the eye of the beholder.
I quoted a verse. "Whatever" was in the verse. I didn't write it. I didn't noodle it. I didn't read anything into it. I quoted it. I emphasized the word "whatever" in context of the discussion. I hope this answers your question.
My post #229 has several questions which remain unanswered. These were not rhetorical questions.
Nell
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Regarding whether God intended women to give men spiritual help I think this verse provides a satisfactory answer:
1 Corinthians 14:35
If they have any questions, they should ask their husbands at home
Matthew Henry commentary:
"the apostle exhorts Christian women to seek information on religious subjects from their husbands at home"
Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges ~
The women were not only not permitted to teach (see 1 Timothy 2:11-14) but even to ask questions in Church, a privilege, says. Grotius, permitted to men, but denied to women, among the Jews.
These are other commentaries are available to read here
http://biblehub.com/commentaries/1_c...ians/14-35.htm
So the bible plainly says that women were not even allowed to ask questions let alone teach their husbands.
And the "custom for the time" argument doesn't really stick because even though this was a
Jewish custom, Paul applied it to the
Gentile church at Corinth, indicating that Paul was not giving different instructions to Jews and Gentiles. All of the churches Jew and Gentile were expected to abide by Paul's same commands.
Jane's book is basically an extension of Bushnell's Christian feminist theories, under the guise of "mistranslated verses from the original Greek" which just happen to coincide with any verse that could be used to defeat her arguments. But modern bible scholars such as Wallace and others provide little support for Bushnell's views, not because they are men but because they are trained experts in their field with 30+ years of experience.