Sunday, September 20, 2009

SECOND CHALLENGE AND APPEAL TO ALL THE ULTRA-FUNDAMENTALISTS OF CHRISTENDOM!

So far, no one has dared to prove me or George Francis Wilkin wrong. Are these ultra-fundamentalists cowards, imbecile weak-willed gutless men, that they REFUSE or NEGLECT or FAIL to answer my invitation to read my blog and prove me wrong? 

I will soon try if I can to place a file containing my studies on the doctrine of the TEXT of 1 Corinthians 14:34/35. My study is different from most other studies, in that it emphasizes the nature of the SETTING in which Paul imposed this harsh and dictatorial precept, such setting beind defined INDEPENDENTLY of any external or internal LOCALLY and CULTURALLY conditioned circumstances.

Now the text specifically states that --- as in all the CHURCHES of the saints; let YOUR women keep silence in the CHURCHES ... the Greek word is EKKLESIA, and it has definite article both times in the original Greek. This means that Paul is talking about something definite, some duly recognized peculiar order or office of a given thing or class of thing, as opposed to just any old order or office in general.

And this office must be construed INDEPENDENTLY of any external or internal LOCALLY and CULTURALLY conditioned circumstances, because ANY ultra-fundamentalist can tell you that Paul is appealing only to UNIVERSAL standards and customs INDEPENDENT of the culture as part of the judicial authority of this statute.

Well, what could the applicability of this rule depend on? Let me count the ways that conventional wisdom has traditionally come up with: (1) the Publicity, (2) the Promiscuity, (3) the Formality, (4) the Officiality, (5) the Sacred character of the meeting, (6) the fact that it is a duly appointed REGULAR and STATED meeting of the Saints on the Christian Sabbath, etc. It is characteristics like these that even the most diehard ultrafundamentalist would ever expect to be typical of a CHURCH meeting, irrespective of any local or cultural circumstances, especially the ones that feminists often appeal to in order to "evade" the statute.

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