Hello, my name is Lynn Hilton Wilson, and I'm giving a special edition on a Come Follow Me example of Peter and Paul's paradoxical passages on women.

I've mentioned most of these things throughout each of the different epistles in the Apostolic Church,

but I thought it would be helpful to bring it together and to talk about

the challenges that the early church had and why sometimes we interpret some of these statements

as misogynist or I've even heard it stated at Society of Biblical Literature Meetings

that the reason why we have a problem with gender in the

world is because of some of these traditions that came from the biblical text. And I totally disagree.

And I would like to defend, not misogyny, but to defend the prophets and to say, let's really look

what they're saying. Let's try to understand.

And if we misunderstand, let's just wait because it doesn't fit with our modern prophets,

because we're blessed to have both the written word and our modern prophets.

Earlier, I've discussed many times in the Gospels and in Christ's emancipation of women

how Christ changed dramatically the culture. But many people

have said, what happened? If Christ made all these changes, why didn't it carry through? Well,

I believe that not only did, does it take time to grow and nurture things, but seeds of truth

have to sprout. And it was very difficult

when before the printing press, before we already read information, before you're able to get the

text of the Bible. And it was difficult and it took time for people to understand. It's interesting

to me to notice that the most literate nation in the world was early Americana,

whereby the mid-1600s, 98% of Massachusetts is literate because they wanted people reading the Bible.

And once they started reading the Bible, 200 years later, they're starting to say,

why don't we have more equality between the genders? Why don't we

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