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Originally Posted by Composer  I am absolutely certain that the Lord Jesus chose 12 men as his apostles and not 6 men and 6 women for no other reason than he would have been crucified far earlier by the prevailing patriarchal societies. |
The bible was written by men, in a male dominated culture. These people recognized the culture and they were trying to appeal to it.
There are many indications however, in the bible, slip-ups in the writings that indicate something different.
One would be "The male disciples fled". A very simple comment. If all the disciples fled, why was the word "male" interjected IF in fact all disciples were male?
This is the challenge of modern Biblical scholarship. To understand the bible in it's context. It is comments like these that fascinate theologians. No human would ever say "The MALES won the superbowl, because there was never any doubt, that superbowl players were anything other than male".
Why make a point of it? Because Males were not the only disciples. It's a slip-up, but an important one.
There were female disciples, and the male predjudice was cultural hence the tentative approach to the respect of females in the New testament. It had nothing to do with Jesus who embraced them whole as equals to himself.
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It is obvious that women had an equal place in the original church Christ initiated but that fact was suppressed by those males who wanted that fact suppressed for their own selfish, patriarchal reasons. If one really searches the Scriptures and the facts of Christ's new order, there was NO sexual discrimination what so ever. I refer to Gal. 3:28 as glaring evidence attesting to that.
Thank you
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To suggest that women are equal but without teaching authority is an oxymoron.
We wouldn't say today, "Well women are allowed this council, and that council and the Politicians will listen to them, but no woman is actually allowed to be in any government position but of course, we will listen to them and think about what they say. But they don't make the decisions, the men do".
It would be extrodinarily patrionizing and downright wrong and was primarily the reason for the fight for feminism in the first place.
You can put women in a category of no power(just a nice voice and we WILL listen), but until they have power equal to men, we are living in a one gender world.
We did not evolve that way, and it will never work for us imo.
Cheers
GX 
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