#34 An Evening With NT Wright live in London
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The Importance of Headship in the Church
You're conflating First Timothy II with the end of First Corinthians 14. And you can't just simply pick these passages, squash them together and produce a composite because they're actually making quite different points. In First Corinthians 11, he assumes that women will be leading in worship and he wants them to look like women when they do so rather than like identical men or whatever. It's possible that the service would be going on in ordinary, coiny Greek, but that the women might well only understand the local patois, the local dialect, and they would get bored and start to chatter. That is one plausible way of reading First Corinthians14. But again, these are very difficult texts
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