Albion
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None of these is enshrined in God's revealed word, though.Certainly I think human sinfulness and disobedience is part of the answer. I also think that God's purposes have unfolded gradually as we have learned and grown. We see similar impulses in the end of slavery, the end of apartheid (and the end of Christian justifications given for those institutions) and so on.
We cannot compare societal evolution, even in a good direction, with the standard all of us Christians agree is our guide to morals, church practices, and all of that.
If, on the other hand, we were dealing with something that is not established by God himself, such as the liturgical colors, the manner of distributing the Communion elements, or such....THEN I would probably agree with your contention as would most other people, I think.
I see no evidence of that. The Anglican and Catholic churches which do not ordain women still are more than supportive of having them as leaders in such positions as eucharistic ministers, readers during the liturgy, members of the church councils, Sunday School Superintendents, delegates to the policy-making national conventions, etc.Of course I do believe women were much more equally treated in the very primitive church, but it has been long painful centuries to recover that.
None of the women mentioned in the New Testament that are cited during debates by today's proponents of women's ordination held positions that show us that women in the early church were "much more equally treated" than this.
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