Scripture interprets Scripture, and the context of Scripture; These words are God's words, and remain efficacious despite trying to use various interpretive criticisms to feebly attempt to discount their validity.
God's Word is good enough for me; I we question these phrases and their plain meaning, then we must also question the rest of Scripture, and next thing we are all a bunch of secular humanists (most of north america has done just that.
Sorry, I believe that you missed the whole point of God's word being eternal and unchanging.
Actually the holy spirit interprets scripture, not your intepretatino of one passage interprets another. And in here lies the problem, you think you know what one passage means and say, therefor you can judge aother passages based on it, making a whole lot of mess all the while thinking you have god and his word on your side.
the parts were we are admonished that women should remain silent, and that they should not usurp authority over men clearly exclude them for the office of the Pastoral Ministry.
Pauls friend priskilla was indeeda woman and a mentor for influential ministries such as apollos. Why didnt paul stop that?
Paul admonishes Junias, not only paul but he says she is great among all the apostles. How could she be a great apostle, if she was commanded to shut up in churches??
So to the two verses you mention.
You think 1 cor 14:34 is a commandment to keep woman silent in church.
That is OBVIOUSLY a wrong interpretation as the whole chapter, in fact the whole passage all the way from chapter 11 are instructions of what to do when we come together and from the beginning WOMAN are instructed to prophecy and pray, and speak in tongues and take part in all the oral gifts of the spirit, that is the WHOLE POINT of the passage and the conclusion is "hinder not" anyone, but use wisdom.
AS appear ant from the greek, and even the english kjv, paul is saying "with you" woman shall not speak, but stay silent, because the law says so". Thats not a commandment to the corintians, he is scolding them for having this practice.
Now when were we ever instructed to follow any law of moses or any gentile law of discrimination against woman? Pauls reaction to this is "WHAT?" (literally this is how kjv says it, look it up)
"Did the world come only to you", corintians, so they were the only one that practices this nonsense. NO he says to let everyone speak and prophecy and just let it be done in order.
Now to your other problem,
"1Ti_2:12 But I suffer not a woman to teach, nor to usurp authority over the man, but to be in silence."
Rightly you quoted it, it doesnt say only to teach but to usurp authority.....that would be a total contradiction to waht he says IN THE SAME PASSAGE, about godly woman :
Tit 2:4 That they may teach the young women to be sober, to love their husbands, to love their children,
So how can he forbid woman to teach and at the same order them to teach?
But he says here they are not to usurp authority, not to rise up and take authority over men like some controlling jezebel.... thats fair enough, theres been many cults created that way, like 7th day adventists that has such a woman controlling them trough their teaching. Paul forbids this and nips it at the root before it grows into something awful.
But, you who claim woman are to be silent and not teach, not even open their mouth, HOW can and that the bible supports this??? how about the prophetesses both in the old and new that led israel and served the church, the woman evanglists, and the once i already mentioned like priskilla and junias, HOW were they suppose to minister to the church of they were commanded to remain silent?? thats scripture intepreting scripture, it doesnt confirm your view, it mocks it.
God's Word is good enough for me; I we question these phrases and their plain meaning, then we must also question the rest of Scripture, and next thing we are all a bunch of secular humanists
Honestly, the way you have treated the bible, contradicted it in the name of a clear misunderstanding of two plain verses, id say you have done jsut that
Now finally, you didnt even understand my first point anyway, the one you replied to , which is questioning whether such a thing as a pastor EVEN IS BIBLICAL, becaue tehre is no such thing in the bible.