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...But when she wishes to serve Christ more than the world, she will cease to be a woman and will be called a man. 😬🤢😬

...medieval world inherited the patriarchy of the Roman world....😬

In a world hat gave husbands power over the very lives of their wives, Paul told husbands to do the opposite - to give up their lives for their wives.
In a wolrd that saw women as biologically deformed men, monstrous even, Paul declared that men were just like women in Christ. 🧡🧡🧡

As a histrorian, I knew that women were kept out of leadership roles in my own congregation because Roman patriarchy had seeped back into the early church.
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What if instead of replacing an ancient gender hierarchy, Paul was showing us how the Christian gospel sets even the Roman household free?
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... the Christian household codes demand that the husband do exactly the oppisite of what Roman law allowed: sacrificing his life for his wife instead of exercising power over her life. This, writes Peppiatt, is the "Christian revolution." 🤩😍 what a joy!!!!

Christianity was deviant and immoral because it was perceived as undermining ideals of Roma masculinity. 😱

....to Roman patriarchy is how early Christians were perceived by the Roman world: as "gender deviants."

Paul wasn't imposing Roman patriarchy on Christians; Paul was using a Jesus remix to tell Christians how the gospel set them free. ♥

Christians in the past may have used Paul to exclude women from leadership, but this doesn't mean that the subjugation of women is biblical.
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