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ORIGINAL: suberic101

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ORIGINAL: ElektraUkM

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ORIGINAL: SirKenin

Paul speaking out against women speaking in the church was merely an outcry against loud raucous women that went in to upset the proceedings. They would stand in the church and yell across the aisles asking their husbands what the teacher was talking about, disrupting the church. See, men would sit on one side of the church, women would sit on the other. Paul was telling the women of the church to wait until they got home to ask their questions, if any.

Wouldn't it have been simpler to allow the wives and husbands to sit together..? And put things in a simpler way..? And WHY was it just women who couldn't understand? And why did they feel the need to ask their husbands the answers..?

~ Elektra

That whole question, in your last paragraph, was kind of a culture thing. They lived in a male-dominated society. Women weren't thought to be capable of comprehending such 'spiritual' thought, and were not given much heed. Read the Easter story for example. The women saw Jesus after his resurrection, and testified to this fact to the disciples. The disciples discredited them- because they thought the women were being fool hardy. Well, we know who was fool hardy. There are numerous examples one can site to make the case that women were considered to be 'lower' than men.