Wrong, my exact quote: Imagine how long Iād last as a professional in the public eye if I said women should not be allowed to teach. Iād be banned, cancelled and bankrupted by the end of the week.
OK, letās have this right from the NIV: I do not permit a woman to teach or to have authority over a man; she must be silent.
Doesnāt say when, doesnāt say where, itās a blanket reference that most of us (who havenāt studied the bible) would agree is about as specific as itās possible to be. Iām sorry I donāt have the time to do this properly and to be fair there are a million youtube videos that better explain this than me. Being a biblical scholar does not make you exempt from being a Christian apologist, in fact one could argue it exacerbates the Dunning-Krugerisation of oneās beliefs.
To the point of being taken in context, being relevant at the time, the heart of the argument. Shouldnāt godās written handbook tell us how to live? Isnāt the whole thing about correcting how we conduct ourselves? If god were happy with how we were, there would be no need for a flood or for Jesus. QED the bible and biblical stories should be correcting, oh I donāt know, things like slavery and rampant oppression of women. The bible should tell mankind explicitly to allow women to teach, not to have slaves, not to murder the Amalachites etc otherwise, whatās it for? But it doesnāt. Further, if JC were divine, heād know that the future was going to change and sooner or later many of the teachings (if you use time as an excuse which I donāt, wrong then, wrong now) would be seen to be demonstrably incorrect. Thereād be a biblical passage:
āOne day times will change and many of teachings in the name of my father will be shown to be incorrect. Oh, and the cure for cancer isā¦ā
What we actually got was follow me, leave your homes and family, have no care for the morrow because times are ending and this veil of tears is at an end. JC (if he existed) was either mad or evil. As the world didnāt end in his apostlesā lifetime (all men unless you believe Dan Brown) they were all fucked for leaving their families and jobs. Nice one JC. My point is that Jesus believed that the world was ending and it was harp playing time very soon. Otherwise heād have given guidance for a future time, not just today. Heād have corrected what was wrong with the teachings and practices of the time. The fact that so much of the rubbish in the bible is explained away by saying that it has to be read in the context of the time if frankly nonsense if one considers that it is inspired by a god who had his son murdered to correct the rubbish in society.
A book that is supposed to be a moral guide should by definition be moral. It isnāt and no amount of apologetics or red brick qualifications will make it so.
Off do do a PHD in biblical slavery, rape, murder, torture, theft and genocide. Purely from the historical context though because it was all AOK at the time and the world was about to end. Sponsored by the post hoc rationalisation foundation obviously.
Iād like to thank @Noo_Noo for the recent kick to get my spelling sorted 
)ā¦so that is why I began to look to protestant christianity because I came to believe if it was based on what I doā¦I am always destined to go to hell according to all these beliefsā¦ so I believed in Jesus simply because He said that salvation is a gift from Him not because I have done anything great. Its not about the works. Humans will always be imperfect, some more so than others, and we will have to strive to be a better person, whether you believe in God or not, whether you believe in heaven or hell or not and so until the day we go, at least we can say we have made good use of our life.