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Originally Posted by zeek
The interpretation you cited doesn't support your contention that 1st Corinthians 7:1 indicates that Paul was preaching the inferior status of women or advising men not to touch women.
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And your contention, that Paul introduced equality between the sexes in a predominately patriarchal period, can't be supported by our authoritative record, even if that record has been added to or tampered with. We don't have any autograph copies of any of the books in our record, to know authenticity with certainty.
Was Jesus an egalitarian? I like to think so. Wouldn't he have been at least up to our standards today? Was Paul? I'd like to think so there too, but he wasn't Jesus, and not as much can be expected of him. Wishful thinking doesn't make it so.
In the end, isn't it likely that they were a product of their times? and so were the story tellers ... and the scribes that tampered with the record?