Sis. Alvear, it'd be great to have Scheels on here.
I haven't been satisfied with either argument at this point. For the non-women teaching/preaching crowd, they have to actively minimize the role of women leaders mentioned in Acts, Romans and other Epistles. They also lose sight of cultural changes and how that affects our presentation of the Gospel. For the pro-women teaching/pastoring crowd, they have not provided a strong defense of 1 Cor/1 Timothy combined IMO. Sam indicated
1 Cor 14 was Paul's repeating arguments from Corinth, in which Paul responds in objection (the proceding verses). Godsdrummer argues from 1 Timothy that this is with regard to relationship of husband and wife. RDP raises a good point: toward the end of the letter, Paul states his purpose, and indicates the issues concern public assembly. One can then ask what the problem was in the public assembly? Women of God teaching/preaching? Or was there a different problem? Could it still have been among husbands/wives. If only the early church video tapes their services!
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