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Originally Posted by Sons to Glory!
... to how things, legally, were viewed in their respective times, right?
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Correct. If we said, "A woman's place is in the home" that would match public sentiment even 65 years ago. Certainly 150 years ago. So, in one era that might not be 'unspiritual' to say, or affirm. But today it would be seriously regressive, and called out, and rightly so. Times have changed.
Paul was saying, "Don't let your freedom in Christ overturn current societal constraints." Whether or not those constraints are equitable, or eternal (immutable and unchanging) are not the issue. Don't distract people from the message of Jesus' resurrection. We got freed from eternal death. Don't grumble over temporal matters. Don't throw off societal yokes because you believe in Jesus Christ.
Here's another way to look at it. Look at Jesus with women. He never, that I can see, overturned societal constraints of his time. Yet he was completely transcendent - his interactions with people, including (and especially[!]) women - were transformative. The human person Jesus took the petty, modest and mundane human interactions, even within their outward limitations and humiliations, and grew something so precious there.
Whether you're woman or man, slave or free, Greek or Jew or Scythian, is beside the point. You may have to live within the dictates of that "package" but in that "package" you can find something transcendent. There's a person waiting to meet you, there.