Re: "Women keep silent in the churches": Has that ceased or is it still for today?
These are new testament instructions so i believe it is still for our day.The problem is that most people dont understand the FULL history concerning why women were forbidden from teaching and having authority in the church setting.we also must remember that the church is the spiritual body of Christ NOT a building where people choose to gather.We all know that it was eve who was first deceived into believing the lie of the serpent but what it was that eve actually did(wether it be eating an apple or some other form of disobedience)most christians have not been able to put a finger on it.Before Adam ever had a carnal knowledge of Eve, the serpent had that knowledge ahead of him. And that one born of it was CAIN. “Cain was of (born of, begotten of) that “Wicked One”, according to I John 3:12.
Notice what God said to the SERPENT in the garden. Genesis 3:15, “And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed, It shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise His heel.” If we give credit to the Word that the woman did have a seed, then the serpent must have surely had a SEED also. If the SEED of the woman was a MAN-CHILD apart from the man, then the SEED of the serpent will have to be in the same pattern, and that is another male must be born apart from human male instrumentality.Also take note that after this affair , God did not curse Eve by punishing her with more apples to eat, but said, “Unto the woman He said, I will multiply thy sorrow and thy CONCEPTION; in sorrow thou shalt BRING FORTH CHILDREN, and thy desire shall be to thy husband and he shall rule over thee..” (Gen. 3:16). This tremendous act has brought forth the advent for man’s sexual reproduction, which was never God’s original plan, because God just speaks His children into existence and they come forth out of the dust, just like the way He created the first man, Adam.When this illicit act happened between Eve and the serpent, God cursed the serpent. He changed every bone in the serpent’s body so that he had to crawl like a snake. “And the Lord God said unto the SERPENT, because thou hast done this, thou art CURSED above all cattle, and above every beast of the field; upon thy BELLY shalt thou go, and dust shalt thou eat all the days of thy life”.
Immediately after EATING the FRUIT (remember that we are the FRUITS of our mother and father), they quickly knew that they were NAKED. And they hid themselves from God and made aprons of fig leaves to cover their NAKEDNESS (Gen. 3:7-8).
Eves sin was not only disbeleif but her actions caused women from that point on to lose their equality of authority with man.What took place in the garden of eden is the real reason that women are not permitted to have any authority or to teach in the church as paul instructs in the new testament.