Women in the church cannot lead Bible studies where men are seated- No! Paul made that clear.
No, Paul didn't say that at all.
I can't answer to bible Colleges. They were unknown until much much later, but I would opine that women should not be teaching men in the church.
Again, WE are the church.
From Timothy:
8 I will therefore that men pray every where, lifting up holy hands, without wrath and doubting.
Yes - and how many people teach on this verse, or criticise men for NOT holding up holy hands, or for being angry and having doubts? In my experience, verses like this are conveniently overlooked while folk attack the women.
9 In like manner also, that women adorn themselves in modest apparel, with shamefacedness and sobriety; not with broided hair, or gold, or pearls, or costly array;
If it's wrong for women to wear gold, why do we exchange gold wedding rings in church?
As for "costly array"; how costly is costly?
11 Let the woman learn in silence with all subjection.
Absolutely. Everyone should learn in silence; if you're talking, you won't hear anything.
12 But I suffer not a woman to teach, nor to usurp authority over the man, but to be in silence.
Yes, but what does that verse MEAN?
1. That Paul did not allow a woman to teach? Why did he allow Priscilla to teach Apollos then? And anyway, Paul's not around now.
2. How can a woman
usurp (grab violently by force) authority from a man, when ALL authority is from Jesus, Matthew 28:19, and other people recognise and freely accept the authority that he gives? When I trained as a preacher I had a male tutor, a male Minister, a male Superintendent and the Chair of District, and even President of the Conference, (like the Archbishop of Canterbury) were men. All agreed that this was the call that GOD had given to me, and allowed and commissioned me to do it. At the service, the congregation were asked if they would accept my ministry, and all said 'yes'. Authority that is given by God and freely accepted by others, cannot be snatched.
3. How, and where, does that verse say "and this is a command from God that no woman be allowed to preach his word today"?
13 For Adam was first formed, then Eve.
Being formed first is not, on its own, an argument. Dogs were formed before men; so?
14 And Adam was not deceived, but the woman being deceived was in the transgression.
Yes, Eve was deceived - because she didn't know what God had said. Adam was given a direct command by God; Eve hadn't been created at that point, and we are not told that God directly told her in the same way.
That's why Paul said, "LET women learn ....", so that they would not be deceived as Eve was.
As for the word custom- it does not mean a willy nilly idea that they gave to some and not others.
Paul said they had no such custom which is a practice. SO Paul was saying He had no other practice and neither did the churches of God have any other practice!
No, they may not have done THEN - it doesn't mean it has to be the case for us today. Whatever IT refers to; it's clearly not that women shouldn't be allowed to proclaim God's word because even Jesus allowed that, and Paul allowed them to prophesy.
It has only been arecent event that women stopped having a head covering in church and that women became preachers and pastors.
I wouldn't have said that 1760 was recent, myself, but maybe it's all relative.
Both John Wesley and William Booth allowed women to preach. John Wesley acknowledged that his own mother was the forerunner of female preachers in the Methodist church.
I don't know whether Catherine of Siena preached in the 1300's, but she was asked by the Pope to teach his cardinals and to help him reorganise the church.
Hilda of Whitby founded a monastery for both monks and nuns in 657 AD and became its abbess.
