• Jyek@sh.itjust.works
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    6 hours ago

    The verse is meant to be taken, as with all things in literature, in context, to be applied to how to conduct a ministry. This passage is to say that if your ministry is in a place that sexualizes women culturally and that is a distraction for your congregation, do not sexualize women in a way that would distract them from your message. It is applicable to people other than Timothy, but the letter alleges to be written for Timothy in Ephesus originally.

    • Brainsploosh@lemmy.world
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      5 hours ago

      Now you’re just re-asserting your point.

      Let’s not talk in circles and just end this interaction here.