Testing Paul's Words - The Curse

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The Curse 

Jesus used human body parts to represent individual members within the Body of Christ as a whole as He spoke in parables. The "Beatitudes" within the gospels will yield ample examples of this. The apostle Paul gave us further understanding of body part analogy here:
For as the body is one, and hath many members, and all the members of the body, being many, are one body; so also is Christ. For in one Spirit were we all baptized into one body, whether Jews or Greeks, whether bond or free; and were all made to drink of one Spirit. For the body is not one member, but many. If the foot shall say, Because I am not the hand, I am not of the body; it is not therefore not of the body. And if the ear shall say, Because I am not the eye, I am not of the body; it is not therefore not of the body. If the whole body were an eye, where were the hearing? If the whole were hearing, where were the smelling? But now hath God set the members each one of them in the body, even as it pleased him. 1 Corinthians 12:12-18
It pleased God to grant prophesy, teaching etc to women without any limitations as to who women may prophesy to or when.
And it shall come to pass afterward, that I will pour out my Spirit upon all flesh; and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, your old men shall dream dreams, your young men shall see visions: and also upon the servants and upon the handmaids in those days will I pour out my Spirit. Joel 2:28-29
Preventing women from doing the very thing God gave them His spirit to do is no different than cutting them off from the body. It is no different than throwing the prophet Jeremiah into prison and a cistern, Jeremiah 37-38, so that he could not prophesy salvation. For further understanding of how "cutting off" is akin to curse, see the forth coming article "The Cut"




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