Is Saul among the Prophets?
age ole question.
Paul is legit and well placed.
Many idolise him and some reject..
Peter warns us to take care with his epistles... some are willing to make women stay silent and cover their heads based on what Paul wrote to a specific group yet when the Lord gives messages to Churches in Revelation that is not for them.
Paul had quite a journey sharing the Lord’s Testimony and suffered persecution but the Lord’s Testament through His Blood and suffering is our Gracious gift not Paul.
1 COR. 7:12 "
But to the rest speak I, not the Lord: If any brother hath a wife that believeth not, and she be pleased to dwell with him, let him not put her away."
paul does this a few times explaining this is my word not the lords. i think if we understood paul wasnt perfect either, as He himelf says , and peter wasnt perfect, He had prejudice toward greek Jews, and gentiles in the book of acts. these werent perfect men, they were men and women Like us.
technically mary magdalene is the first person to preach the good news of Jesus resurrection. i think the subject of male v female can be discerned when a person sees that mary was the One who refused to leave the tomb outside crying for Jesus. Had that been peter, John, martha or any other that remained there Loving Jesus so deeply, Jesus would have comforted and sent to tell the good news to His Beloved.
God cares about who we are in His sight, not who we are in the sight of men. women and men are no different in Gods eyes, its the heart of a believer, male female, short, tall, black, whote, Jewish, non jewish. lame, blind, crippled, Healthy, weak, strong, broken, wounded whole and without a scar......its a matter of faith not gender. priscilla and aquilla were a husband and wife ministry team. priscilla travels with paul and barnabus and luke in thier travels and many conclude had a hand in the book of Hebrews.
Paul says this
1 timothy 2 "
Let the woman learn in silence with all subjection. 12But I suffer not a woman to teach, nor to usurp authority over the man, but to be in silence. 13For Adam was first formed, then Eve. 14And Adam was not deceived, but the woman being deceived was in the transgression."
then He says
1 corinthians 11 " For a man indeed ought not to cover his head, forasmuch as he is the image and glory of God: but the woman is the glory of the man. 8For the man is not of the woman; but the woman of the man. 9Neither was the man created for the woman; but the woman for the man. 10For this cause ought the woman to have power on her head because of the angels.
11Nevertheless neither is the man without the woman, neither the woman without the man, in the Lord. 12For as the woman is of the man, even so is the man also by the woman; but all things of God.
13Judge in yourselves: is it comely that a woman pray unto God uncovered? 14Doth not even nature itself teach you, that, if a man have long hair, it is a shame unto him? 15But if a woman have long hair, it is a glory to her: for her hair is given her for a covering. 16But if any man seem to be contentious, we have no such custom, neither the churches of God."
if the reason for women needing to have authority on her head, is because she was made of man, yet in the Lord man is of woman. it seems to me, that paul is saying " i do not permit a woman to teach but must learn in full submission" " I perceive it to be a shame for a man to have Long hair" yet there are no such customs in the churches of God. Because male and female is a trivial and insignificant identification oin Christ. there is no difference If a woman is called to preach, she should from the rooftops, if a man is not called to preach, but to serve the female pastor and Help Her, they should do that with gladness and gratitude.
Paul is no the end all tell all, He is an imperfect man by His own words. But Paul was the One searching for a pearl of great price, and when He found it, he sold all he had to buy that field where the pearl was found. i think if we can understand " the carnal Law" that male and female would naturally be an issue because its about temporal things, natural things, it comes as result of transgression. so the womens place is where the curse placed her under the man, but when the Gospel comes and One accepts it and abides in Christ. like the carnality of the law, that principle goes with Jesus removing the curse.
