Thousands of Southern Baptists overwhelmingly voted Wednesday to advance a formal ban on women pastors in the nation’s largest Protestant denomination, sending a clear message that men alone should preach to these conservative evangelical congregations.
So British were… Christian now? Some were, sure. But only in the later first century.
Rome only invaded the isle in 40 c.e or so. Paul was on the other side of the world. He may have been “aware” that they existed, but he certainly wasn’t influenced by them. And frankly given how he didn’t write them any letters… I find that dubious.(he died around 65ad, and the letter furthest west was to Rome.)
Paul’s instruction to how women should behave in their daily lives is “wives, obey your husbands” and there’s no similar command to husbands to obey their wives , it’s inherently patriarchal.
You keep trying to say that’s okay because husbands are supposed to love their wives. But that’s not equality, it’s misogyny.
Remember, Paul also used the language of obedience and submission to slaves and masters. He also says that Christian’s are slaves to Christ (probably getting the idea from the mosaic covenant, where Israelites are slaves to god.)
The point being that relationship is inherently unequal. It’s patriarchal and misogynistic. It doesn’t matter if masters are to love their slaves or husbands love their wives.
“But I’m a kind master” doesn’t make owning slaves okay. “But I’m a loving husband” doesn’t make controlling and subjugating your wife okay.
Not in the modern era.