Paul expresses the new freedom found in Jesus the Christ. “For why should my liberty be determined by another man’s scruples? If I partake with thankfulness, why am I denounced because of that for which I give thanks?” Along with this freedom comes personal responsibility and accountability to God. John Dominic Crossan in the book In Search of Paul writes about 1 Corinthians 11:3-16, “one section in 1 Corinthians seems to silence women within the Christian assembly…a strange dichotomy, given what Paul says in Galatians…the there is neither male nor female in Christ. How therefore, are we to understand 1 Corinthians 11:3-16?....The difference between women and men, however that was customarily and socially signified, must be maintained, even while hierarchy or subordination was negated…” Reading In Search of Paul put Paul is a new, very favorable light for me.
Paul expresses the new freedom found in Jesus the Christ. “For why should my liberty be determined by another man’s scruples? If I partake with thankfulness, why am I denounced because of that for which I give thanks?” Along with this freedom comes personal responsibility and accountability to God. John Dominic Crossan in the book In Search of Paul writes about 1 Corinthians 11:3-16, “one section in 1 Corinthians seems to silence women within the Christian assembly…a strange dichotomy, given what Paul says in Galatians…the there is neither male nor female in Christ. How therefore, are we to understand 1 Corinthians 11:3-16?....The difference between women and men, however that was customarily and socially signified, must be maintained, even while hierarchy or subordination was negated…” Reading In Search of Paul put Paul is a new, very favorable light for me.
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