Let me start with saying I am NOT advocating for women to be preachers and teachers.
That being said, I think the passages pertaining to women having to be silent in the church and not being permitted to teach in the bible in 1 Timothy 2 and 1 Corinthians 14 are misunderstood and also abused.
Specifically, the word women in 1 Corinthians 14:34 comes from the greek word gune.
Gune is entry 1135 in the greek section of Strong's concordance, and it says this: probably from the base of 1096: a woman; specifically a wife: - wife, woman.
It's the same word used in 1 Timothy 2 for woman and women.
Likewise, in 1 Timothy 2:12, this comes from the greek word aner.
Aner is entry 435 in the greek section of Strong's concordance, and it says this:
a prim. word (compare 444); a man (properly as an individual male).- fellow, husband, man, sir.
These passages make MUCH more sense when you substitute wife for woman and husband for man.
I also feel that it should be noted in Romans that Paul highlighted the work of many women within the church and commanded the churches to receive them (as in positions of authority). Also, I can't discount what Paul said in Galatians 3:28
28 There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither bond nor free, there is neither male nor female: for ye are all one in Christ Jesus.
I think, that at the church in Corinth, it was likely that the wives were being disruptive which was why Paul gave the instruction for this particular church, however he did not give the same instruction for all the other churches. It certainly makes more sense when you add in 1 Corinthians 14:33
33 For God is not the author of confusion, but of peace, as in all churches of the saints.
And I think this may have been instruction to Timothy in particular to maybe address the problem? Hard to say.
But remember, that God has used women very powerfully in the bible. Deborah was a judge. Esther became a queen and saved her people. Rehab delivered the scouts in Jericho. And all throughout the old and new testament women have been prophetesses and seers just as men have.
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