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#152 - Can women lead in church? Why does 1 Timothy tell women to ’be silent’?

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Women Shouldn't Usurp Authority From Men

The key Greek word in the middle of the authentic is a very strange word which you can look at up in the dictionary it's got about 12 different meanings one of which is actually to murder I mean it covers a huge range. The argument about Adam and Eve rather like the one in 1st Corinthians 11 if you read it out for us sorry yes Adam was made first and then Eve and Adam was not deceived but the woman was deceived and got herself into trouble and parabasic econ and she she became in transgressionI should make clear for me that Paul is opposing here is the idea well of course we in Ephesus know that religion is basically a female thing so if there

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