PAUL’S TEACHINGS ABOUT WOMEN, Part 2
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The purpose of this chapter is to examine what Paul wrote about men and women. To do this, we will have to remove the Aristotelian translating filter to find the Pauline thought in the epistles he did pen or dictate and also to separate the epistles that Paul actually wrote from those pseudonymously written at the end of the first century and during the second when the church was moving out of homes into the public and was more and more being influenced by ancient Greek pagan views of women.
One time my wife wanted to order some jewelry from Peru to match what our daughter had brought her from there. So she wrote out her letter in English and submitted it to an online translation program to put it in Spanish. When she showed the “Spanish” letter to someone who knew Spanish—oh, my—many changes were needed in the translation if she wanted the message to generate the desired jewelry. When Paul’s epistles were translated into “English” centuries ago, it was as though they were put through some kind of pre-conceived Aristotelian translating program and-–oh, my—there was no one from either Christ’s or Paul’s thinking available to clear up the message about women.