“our old attitudes toward women’s ordination.”
I’ve still got that “old” attitude concerning women’s ordination a/k/a ordain men only.
It’s an attitude shared by many Christian men and women alike of all races. And more importantly, it’s THE Biblical position:
http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1%20timothy%202:11-15%20&version=ESVUK
“Let a woman learn quietly with all submissiveness. I do not permit a woman to teach or to exercise authority over a man; rather, she is to remain quiet. For Adam was formed first, then Eve; and Adam was not deceived, but the woman was deceived and became a transgressor. Yet she will be saved through childbearing—if they continue in faith and love and holiness, with self-control.”
Why will she be saved through child bearing?
So Paul has the same authority as Christ Our Savior? I have never understood this. Are we the Christian Church or the Paulian Church?