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I will let St. SteVen answer for himself, but I do have a question: Is it "attacking" the Bible to point out its inconsistencies? (I don't think so.)

Thanks for the link. I will give you my reaction: Biblical inconsistencies come in two basic flavors. Some passages are literally consistent, i.e., they do not contradict each other – but they present contradictory pictures of God or of His commands. (Let’s call these theologically...

I share your view, Aunty. And there are a few missing pieces in my box. (I'm a student of textual criticism for that reason.)

Fair point. But I have difficulty treating contradictory Scriptures as inspired, and the Spirit doesn't point me to which one is correct.

Well, that could create a problem. What do we do about John and the Synoptics disagreeing on whether the Last Supper was a Passover meal? What do we do about disagreement over whether Joseph’s lineage is traced from David through Solomon (Matt. 1:6) or through Nathan (Luke 3:31)? What do we...

Does that go for gospel writers too?

Does Matt. 7:21 overrule Joel 2:32?

I think Christ had the prerogative to overrule OT declarations, however galling it might be to Pharisees.

It's worse for me than for the rest of the congregation because we are married -- and because I think that relationship was what 1 Tim. 2:12 was really concerned with: “I do not permit a woman to teach or to exercise authority over a man; rather, she is to remain quiet.” The word γυναικὶ used...

That's really hard for me to swallow after hearing one particular woman preach. She is just phenomenal in delivering sermons. An ordained Episcopal priest, graduate of Harvard Divinity School, the whole nine yards. As good or better than any man I have heard, and everyone who has heard her...

I sure would! But do you interpret Genesis to forbid it? (I'm just trying to probe the limits of your comment in #222 that "something ocurred in Genesis that, to this day, has subjugated women to never exercise authority over a man in the Church." JUST in the Chruch? Or everywhere?)

I like Post #225. How about a female President? Would that violate the Genesis no-authority-over-men prescription? (Not Paul's prescription. Genesis's prescription.)

I don't really care that Paul (he doesn't say "The Lord does not;" he says "I do not") permits or doesn't permit. Paul is a product of his times. And the fact that Adam was formed before Eve tells us nothing about whether women should or shouldn't preach in Church. Both Adam and Eve disobeyed...

I see no answer to my question. Husbands ruling over their wives and female ministers preaching in church are not inconsistent concepts.

Beats me! I'm not anti-Catholic.

I just can't communicate well. One of my many flaws. I'll give it one more shot, and then quit: I am not asking whether women should be allowed to preach to men. I am asking a very specific question about Genesis, and specifically your statement that "something ocurred in Genesis that, to...

I can't tell if this is an answer to my question or not. I'll try again. Does your Genesis reference about women not "exercising authority over" men include not "preaching to" men?

Is "exercise authority over" inclusive of "preach to" here?

Is this what the discussion has devolved into? Hurling these bombs at each other? There is enough blame to go around regardless of whether we search Catholic history or Protestant history.

I don't see how your conclusion follows from the absence of use of a particular word. It strikes me as perfectly plausible to infer Christ's "return" to the Father from the context of a verse, even if the word you have in mind (is it ἐπιστρέφω ?) isn't used. And I think John 16:28 is an...