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#34 – Authority over a man (1 Timothy 2:11-15)

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Women Shouldn't Be Dominating Men

Traditional complementarians interpret the Ephesians passage as saying that men should be domineering women. In fact, paul is rebuking that interpretation and he says everywhere else in almost every one of his his epistles that the person in a situation of power social status over another is supposed to imitate christ by laying down that power and modeling christ's submission and servanthood so i actually found that in going through the scholarship on this word authentic and how it relates here i felt like i was just kind of watching the western traditional theology of power play itself out.

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