#34 – Authority over a man (1 Timothy 2:11-15)
Almost Heretical
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Westfall Scholarship - Is This a Woman's Man or Woman?
There's simply no setting where women would have had authority over a singular man. If this was talking about a woman standing up in a church gathering and exercising authority over the room as a whole which included men it wouldn't have been singular man. There are multiple interpretive options for what authentane could mean here like in paul's head there are multiple studies one even makes the case that this actually is like an a sexualized erotic term for a woman basically trying to be sexually dominant over her husband.
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