You conveniently glossed over the major issue I have: why should a woman not be able to be a minister or the like, though that varies by Protestant denominations anyway. The worst and repressive kinds of Xianity are splintered schisms that usually die out or only maintain existence by indoctrination, cult tactics and general numbers by excessive breeding. Ideally, one could hope that the general mainstream would realize that women are not incapable of having logical and reasoned out arguments and comprehension of the bible, same as men. Major problem is the bible's general lack of strong female role models, the rare ones slipping through the cracks compared to the scapegoats (Eve, the woman caught in adultery, etc, many not even getting a name in the narrative)
I have already talked about the fact that a female doctor is "better at being a doctor" than a male lawyer. Or a female chemists is better at being a chemist than a male biologist. Obviously when it comes to skills, a better person will be teaching the less experienced/skilled person. So I won't cover that again.
Now I will focus on your question, which is
females teaching men about God. This is the only context in what I will be saying.
Firstly, women clearly taught men in the bible. So it cannot mean that women must never teach any men. The most clear example was Jesus directly told Mary Magdalene to teach/tell the Apostles about the resurrected Jesus. There were many others like the Judge Deborah, who both taught and led.
So when we look at verses like 1 Timothy 2:9-15, we have to be very careful to consider what it actually means. Clearly if a woman has a direct message from God, she must tell it to the church.
So what does it all mean? There are a few things in the message that is clear:
Verses
9-10) Women must focus on doing good work of God, instead of showing off her beauty.
Woman tend to be obsessed with beauty. God tells woman to focus instead on their heart. They must love God, love others and love themselves.
11-12) Woman must not come up with "new ideas" without clear support by the bible.
If a woman wants to learn, they must learn directly from the bible. They must not take things
out of context to come up with new ideas. Instead they must focus on the
clear and easy to understand verses of the bible.
(Fear not! I think 80% of the verses in the bible are clear and easy to understand.)
For example, loving God is clear. Loving others is clear. Loving themselves is clear. Telling the gospel to non-believers is clear. Mentoring other young women is clear.
And for the "hard to understand" verses, the interpretations must be taught from a man. Women are
not allowed to come up with "weird" or "new" interpretations of these "hard to understand" verses.
If a woman should ever teach a man, they must
quote easy and clear verses directly from the bible. This leaves very little room for misinterpretation. Alternatively the women's ideas must be
taught by (or came from) a well respected male teachers/pastors/elders, as descried in 1 Timothy 3. These elders must be proven Godly, truly wanting to follow Jesus, by
their actions, not merely words.
Of course even if such elders teach a woman something, that woman should go back to the bible to
double check before buying into his ideas. Elders might also be teaching falsehood.
By teaching only the clear and easy verses directly from the bible, and relying on Godly male elders for the hard verses, a woman would have
fulfilled what was written in verses 11 and 12.
She wasn't teaching men. She was
repeating what the bible said and
referring to what Godly male elders said.
Please note that I am actually a supporter of gender equality. But that is only for the world. When it comes to the church, we must obey the word of God. And as much as I can tried to empower woman, the
bible said what it said.
If you don't like it, I understand. But do you trust God? There is a
difference between not liking a commend and not trusting God. I didn't like the fact that I couldn't have sex before marriage neither. Come on everyone else on earth is doing it. 90% of Christians had sex before marriage. So I might as well join that statistic right? But I trust God and obey him. My Jesus died for me because he loves me. Why wouldn't I obey him? I trust that his commends are for my own benefits.
13-14) A woman is more easily deceived by Satan than a man.
These verses explains the reasoning behind verses 11-12. Woman is more easily deceived by Satan than a man. It wasn't just random chance that Satan approached Eve instead of Adam. And Eve got "knowledge of good and evil" before Adam did.
At one point Eve knows but Adam was still innocent. However she still choose to also led Adam to eat that same fruit, so he will also disobey God and die.
So this is
not about if man is smarter or woman is smarter. Or which sex is better. Not at all. Because
at one point in human history,
woman was clearly smarter than man. However being smarter
didn't help Eve to make things better didn't it? In fact in her "wisdom" she made it worst.
Let Adam also eat so he can die with her! What a loving gesture.
Satan would want you to view it as a problem of
gender equality. But this is actually a matter of
spiritual warfare, of women being more easily deceived than man. Satan will work extra hard against women. Spiritual warfare have no logic or reason, and wisdom without God doesn't help. This is unseen in this world.
That's why it will be impossible to prove in this world. That a woman can be smarter, better and more experienced yet be more easily deceived by Satan. We cannot logic or reason it. We must,
in faith, to take the word of God as it is stated.
This doesn't mean women cannot teach men at all (as we seen in the cases of Mary Magdalene and Deborah). But the bible said what it said about woman being more easily deceived by Satan. Hence we have to be careful.
Mary Magdalene was told directly by Jesus himself to teach the Apostles. Deborah was also directly told by God to be a judge. Were you told directly by Jesus or by God what to do?
Don't be so certain of that voice in your head. Even if we played fair, it is 33% chance of being from God, 33% chance of being from
your imagination and
33% chance of being from Satan. Do you feel lucky today? That's why we must refer back to the Bible in all things.
If any church doctrine was found by women (or heavily influenced by women), it
cannot be legit church doctrine
from God. And this was the case in Pentecostal church and the Charismatic movement, which were heavily influenced by
female mystics trying to "feel" God. That's why I think these are falsehood. The bible said what it said.
That's why woman must focus on easy and clear verses. And for the hard verses, they must refer to male teachers/pastors/elders.
If a woman wants to teach man, they must
work twice as hard to ensure they are not teaching falsehood.
Once again I am not trying to be sexist here. But the bible said what it said.
15) We know that woman are saved by believing in Jesus as Lord and Savior, not by bearing of children. So I am not sure what this verse actually means. It probably meant something in their history context.