Can women be church leaders? View all View original

This Bible contradiction is from the Skeptic's Annotated Bible.

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Yes, they can.

Acts 18:26 View context

And he began to speak boldly in the synagogue: whom when Aquila and Priscilla had heard, they took him unto [them], and expounded unto him the way of God more perfectly.

Romans 16:1 View context

I commend unto you Phebe our sister, which is a servant of the church which is at Cenchrea:

No, they cannot.

1 Corinthians 14:34-35 View context

Let your women keep silence in the churches: for it is not permitted unto them to speak; but [they are commanded] to be under obedience, as also saith the law.

And if they will learn any thing, let them ask their husbands at home: for it is a shame for women to speak in the church.

1 Timothy 2:11-12 View context

Let the woman learn in silence with all subjection.

But I suffer not a woman to teach, nor to usurp authority over the man, but to be in silence.