by Sandy » Thu Jul 12, 2018 12:48 pm
If you want to apply all of that stuff literally, then men should be lifting their hands in prayer, women should not be braiding their hair or wearing gold jewelry, and in another place, should have a covering over their head and not cut their hair. Worship services should not have a "sermon" (not mentioned anywhere) and try getting a church to abide by Acts 2:42-47, or Acts 5:12-17. When was the last time you opened your invitation to a healing?
Then there's that pesky Greek translation of the term "Guniakas" in I Timothy 3:11. Conservative Evangelicals automatically insist this translates "wives", though the term is generically used for "women" even by the same author elsewhere, along with the term diakonos, and applied to a female in both cases. Other Christians look at the term in I Timothy 3, translate it "likewise, women" and apply it to both Elders and Deacons in context, meaning " in the same way, women who serve [both of these offices of elder and deacon] must meet the same requirements as men do. Since these positions were modeled after Jesus' role as a servant of all, they don't violate the injunction of having authority over a man, because they don't have authority, they have gifts of spiritual leadership.
I don't see any of that applying to a non-Biblical office in a denominational structure that isn't the church.