And if you look at ephesus they were predominantly into female gods.. or the goddess ..
Yes, they were Greeks, not Jews, and worshipped the goddess Artemis.
So this usurping of the God created way by the devil was a huge facter
But did they know the One true God that Israel worshipped, or were they taught, and brought up, to worship Artemis? If they'd never been taught about God, how could they have rejected him?
If I hadn't been taken to Sunday school and taught about God, I could have grown up believing that atheism, a cult or the occult was real.
Men were prone to stepping back and letting woman lead the way because they had grown up in a culture of feminine dieties.
That may, or may not, have been true in Ephesus; it was not true in Israel.
In fact, the opposite was true in Israel - they grew up with the Patriarchs, the covenant was circumcision, which only affected boys, the prophets were mostly men (but not all), and they had kings on the throne.
So you could say of the Israelites, that because men received the mark of the covenant, were educated, inherited etc, that girls/women were counted as nothing, overlooked and got walked over because the culture said that men were more important.
That's why what Jesus did was so revolutionary.
True, his closest followers were men, but in a culture where women could not learn, Jesus taught them. When Mary sat at his feet it was in the place assumed by male students learning from their Rabbi. Jesus commended this, and he allowed women to follow him.
In a time when women were unclean at certain times of the month, Jesus healed a woman with an issue of blood. She was breaking the law by being out of her her, and by touching Jesus, made him ceremonially unclean - yet he called her daughter.
In a time when women were thought to be unreliable witnesses, Jesus chose a woman to be the first witness of the resurrection.
And that lie has always been trying to reinsert itself as we see in the rcc where it remains fully intact with no sign of repentance.
If God chooses a woman to be a leader, and it's clear he sometimes did, and does; how can it be a sin?
Just accept the facts
We are prone to error and sin .
Yes - we all have a sinful nature.
Are you(not you personally.an example) prone to alcaholism ?
No?
How about coveting new shoes....
No and no.
I don't drink, and I hated buying shoes even before I had mobility problems.
Fact ..woman are MORE prone to coveting new shoes then men are.
BOTH do it...
That might be true.
Women tend to be more fashionable than men, certainly in this culture, though it might not be true everywhere. That could be partly because we have more options open to us - skirts/dresses/suits/blouses, formal and informal/jumpers/knitted tops - etc.
Men tend to more prone to buying, and obsessed with gadgets - computers/power tools/electronic devises etc.
All that is still a generalisation thought. Some men are very fashionable and may spend more time getting ready than I do, while they may hate computers. Some women, while liking clothes, don't go for designer labels or the latest fashions, and may love to use power tools and do handiwork.
..the premise is the same.
I don't get what you're saying, sorry.
Just because the lord has equalled the feild ,we dont assume all professing believers are acting in the holy spirit.
I don't assume anything.
I dare say that some women who say they are called to be ordained, or preachers, are mistaken, have the wrong motives or may not have heard from God. That could equally be true for men.
But I do personally know women who are ordained and/or preachers, and have heard their testimonies about how God called and they ignored him - and how he kept calling until they obeyed. Or that he removed the things that they had thought were obstacles. Before the C of E ordained women, I also saw the pain and frustration of some who were wanting to obey the Lord, and were denied that opportunity by men - as debates on these forums show only too well. Some might, in the past, have had their calling rejected by the church simply because they were the "wrong" gender.
These women then had the difficult decision of either leaving the church they loved, or staying and somehow living with the situation.