As I said all Chrustian women can be called to walk and use gifts God gives within the parameters of His order. But as we read “I suffer not a woman to teach, nor to usurp authority over the man” and many other verses.
Yes, we do. But context is important and a lot of these are taken out of context.
I've asked you before about what it means to "usurp authority" when it is God who gives it and men that recognise it, and not had an answer.
And given that we see women doing all kinds of things in the Bible, proclaiming God's word, (prophetesses, woman at the well, Mary Magdalene), teaching (Priscilla), instructing men (Esther) and sometimes telling them what to do (Sarah, Ruth), what do the words "I suffer a woman not to teach", mean? Paul didn't seem to have a problem with Priscilla teaching Apollos - and it was in Corinth that that happened.
Let's look at the context, and verses, of 1 Timothy 2.
Chapter titles weren't given in the original, but in my Bible, these verses have been given the heading "Instructions on worship".
Paul says that he wants petitions, prayers and intercession to be made for all people - he doesn't say that anyone in particular needs to be leading these; just that it needs to be done. It could be argued that Paul doesn't say that a woman may lead the prayers - but neither does he say that she is forbidden from doing so. And in 1 Corinthians 11 Paul tells women HOW they should pray and prophesy. He does say in verse 8 that he wants men to pray. Does that mean specifically, and only men? I don't know what the Greek says here. But in any case, they should lift up holy hands without anger or disputing.
Does this happen in churches? It should, if people are seeking to obey, and practice, ALL these verses.
Paul says that he wants women to dress modestly - fair enough - and not adorn themselves with gold, pearls or braided hair, but with good deeds. Does that mean that it is forbidden for women to wear gold? That's what it says. So what about wedding rings? Why can't women have braided hair, and have you tried forbidding women with dreadlocks from worshipping?
The Paul says that a woman should learn - opposing the culture of the time which said that women shouldn't be educated - and learn in quietness and submission. No one can learn if they can't hear what's being said.
If Christian women were beginning to be allowed to learn - following Christ's example when he let Mary sit at his feet- maybe they kept interrupting the speaker with questions or comments. Such behaviour would undermine his authority, especially if it led to other comments being made and the service disrupted. This fits with the verses that you quoted from 1 Corinthians 14 - "if they (women) want to enquire about anything, they should ask their own husbands at home". Paul would not have needed to say that if it were not happening; Christian women were able and eager to learn and were calling out questions in the service, or asking the nearest available man, when they should have been keeping quiet and asking their own husbands at home.
Paul mentions Adam and Eve; why?
In Genesis 2:17 we are told that Adam was given a direct command by God. Eve had not been created at this point and we are not told that God spoke to her in the same way. So Eve can only have heard about the tree from Adam. But it appears that either Adam didn't tell her clearly enough, or that Eve simply wasn't listening. Maybe she was talking, or her mind was somewhere else because when the serpent asked "DID God say ......?" and Eve repeated what God had said, she got it wrong - compare Genesis 3:3 with Genesis 2:17.
THAT'S why she was able to be deceived - she was not certain of what God had said; maybe hadn't been listening to her husband. Note that the serpent did not try to deceive Adam - no point; Adam had heard directly from God.
This is another argument for women being able to learn, says Paul; so that they will not be deceived.
I am certain that you will disagree with this; often when I try to explain the importance of context I'm told I am trying to "explain away" Scripture, or the bits of it that I don't agree with.
“ 1 Corinthians 14: 34. Let your women keep silence in the churches: for it is not permitted unto them to speak; but they are commanded to be under obedience, as also saith the law. ..37. If any man think himself to be a prophet, or spiritual, let him acknowledge that the things that I write unto you are the commandments of the Lord.”
See above.
And Paul may well have prayed before he wrote those letters and asked the Lord how he should teach those churches in that situation.
But that doesn't mean that this was a command from God for ALL churches at ALL times.
I discuss what this silence is in many post here
I'm sure you do, but have you explained it within the context - i.e that of order in church, only having one prophet or tongues speaker talking at a time and if women want to ask about anything, they should ask their own husbands at home?
And what law teaches that a woman should be "under obedience"?
We are not bound by the law.
