St. Paul is an apostle, and his writings are considered to be divinely inspired, God-breathed. He bases his teachings upon the order of creation as found in Genesis.
Priests had to be “whole,” which is associated with holiness. There was a controversy in the early church over Origin in which he was denied ordination because he had castrated himself. This was in keeping with the idea that the successors or the Apostles had to be whole males.
Where in the Bible are women teaching their local groups? Maybe I do not understand what you mean by “local groups.” Perhaps you can give me an example from the Scriptures?
I think I mistook what I remembered of women in early church (in Scripture). I thought there was something that said this and that woman were teaching, but maybe not. I think it was just that they were “helping” with the church in 1 way or other. 1 was a “deaconess”.
I was unaware of this “wholeness” for Christian men (much of Jewish rules went away, remember), and particularly this story of Paul castrating himself. So was he never “ordained” after all, or did they make an exception? In any case, apparently it didn’t matter in the big scheme of things.