𝑻𝒂𝒍𝒊𝒆𝒔𝒊𝒂𝒏 :
You’re conflating mosaic law and Christian doctrine. Mosaic doctrine and Christian doctrine and theology are not the same thing and are completely distinct. The Old Testament is considered to be the Old Covenant and historical doctrine precisely because of Jesus Christ. He came precisely to correct and transform the Judaic doctrine of His time, which resulted in Him being crucified for blasphemy according to the Mosaic religious authorities. For example, in the Gospels (such as Luke 8:43 48), a woman who had been bleeding for 12 years touched the hem of Jesus’ garment. According to the purity laws of Mosaic Law, this would have made contact with her ritually significant, yet Jesus did not become defiled, He healed her and relived her pain. This demonstrates the distinction between the Mosaic covenant and the Christian understanding of Christ’s authority over the Law. Furthermore, the passages from Leviticus and Numbers concern the ritual and civil structures of the Mosaic
covenant, not a statement that women are morally inferior. This distinction is demonstrated in Luke 8:43-48, where a woman with a twelve year hemorrhage, who would have been considered ritually unclean under Mosaic purity regulations, touched Jesus and was not rejected or treated as defiling. Instead, He healed her and affirmed her faith, revealing that restoration and mercy take priority over ritual exclusion. Likewise, passages such as 1 Timothy 2:11-12, 1 Corinthians 14:34-35, and Ephesians 5:22 cannot be reduced to ‘Christianity teaches women are lesser.’ The New Testament presents women as valuable participants in God's work, including as witnesses of the resurrection, prophets, and members of the early Church. The debate over particular roles within the Church is not a claim that women lack equal dignity before God. Ephesians 5 also begins with mutual submission and commands husbands to love sacrificially as Christ loved the Church, not to dominate.
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