Are Female Christian Preachers in conflict with Bible?

[Still_Waters]

Originally Posted by davidmartin

This is a nice narrative but it doesn't make a lot of sense
We see Jesus in the gospels being kind to women and giving them prominent roles, then Paul restricting them, then being told the original Jewish Christians were more conservative - why would they, if they had you know, been influenced by Jesus! It makes no sense

Its simpler to just think Paul was doing some 'Judaising' himself by actually introducing these things, not to appeal to the original Christians but to those with more socially conformist attitudes like himself that he was preaching to.
Any times Paul seems less restrictive is when he is reflecting the original Christianity of Jesus
The portrayal of the apostles as being very conformist is something suggested in the new testament but only based on a few passages

Well put. Perhaps Paul, with his background as a Pharisee, was indeed doing some "judaising himself by actually introducing these things".

There is undoubtedly a lot of good stuff in the Bible and the scriptures of all traditions, but there is also at least some stuff that requires at least some questioning as you have duly noted.