Greetings

I do not mean to go off course with the reasonings, but...

Many scholars maintain that some of Paul's letters weren't actually written by him, including the ones in reference to women obeying their man (this teaching fits more into the later developments of the church). The writings that are believed to be Paul's include the "woman, man, slave, free...all are one in Christ." Paul had many, many woman disciples, so the idea that Paul was a misogynist, imo, just isn't true.

I just got done reading Elaine Pagels' book Adam, Eve, and the Serpent. She feels that Yshua and Paul, as well as the first Christians, were radical in the sense that they turned the established Roman and Jewish family structure upside down by teaching celebacy, or, "virgins (or enuchs, in Yshua's teachings) for JAH". Many Christians went into the desert for solitary lives livicated to JAH, which in turn created the Christian monastic tradition, in line with the already established traditions of the Essenes, the Qaumran community, possible Buddhist monastics in Alexandria at the time, and the Therapeuts of Egypt, as well as the Greek Stoics. The author feels that it wasn't until Christianity became a Roman religion did it go from a revolutionary stance against these traditional values of Jewish and Romn society, to a family, love-our-country-and-its-traditions-type religion.

Blessings