The Christian gender roles set up in the NT are contrary to the OT:

I can see that my opponent is taking many scriptural verses out of context. My opponent is ignoring the details and background of each verse; He is taking what is being said and twisting it around to suppose that early church leaders were lying in their doctrine. This is getting very annoying as you can imagine. Taking anything out of context can make something seem evil. I could even go to Proverbs 5:19 (in the Old Testament) which states: "let her breasts satisfy thee at all times;" I could argue that this scriptures says that women should always satisfy men with their boobs and that God commands it. Well now you see that this verse in proverbs seems pretty disgusting and it also down plays women. It contradicts Genesis 1:27 by saying that women are only pleasure servants for men with their bodies. Therefore the Tanakh contradicts itself and is not true. Okay, everything I said in the last paragraph is completely false. I was just giving an example of the tactics that my opponent is using against my case. I completely believe that the Old Testament is the word of God. But by looking at this entire chapter, you can see that Proverbs 5:19 is not talking about women pleasuring men, it's talking about... well in modern terms... "don't mess with a girl with immoral values". So as you can see, taking anything out of context can demean the actual meaning of the chapter. Like I said in round 2: women can receive revelation. I never said they couldn't. My opponent would like you to believe that I said women can't receive revelation, but I can firmly insure you that I didn't. For proof, just look at my rounds. As you can see, I never said women can't receive revelation. Also, I have already disproved that the title "Prophetess" is not an actual prophet. My opponent is putting many words in my mouth. He says that I assume that "wives are automatically under the governance of their husbands", But this is completely untrue. Like I have said many times ,"Husbands and wives are equal partners". This whole debate I have shown that women are not mans slave, but that they complete each other in their roles, and are equal in God's eyes. So this statement by my opponent is false. Also, my opponent is right in saying that whatever God says should be law. But since I already agreed with Genesis 21:12, his attack really has no affect on my case. But since we have both agreed that whatever God says or commands is law, then he should agree with my case. God said to Adam and Eve in Genesis 3:16: "Unto the woman he said, I will greatly multiply thy sorrow and thy conception; in sorrow thou shalt bring forth children; and thy desire shall be to thy husband, and he shall rule over thee." "well- G-d said it didn"t he?" So my opponent agrees that men should be the leader of the family. Therefore, he has contradicted his whole argument. Yes, God did not intend women to be servants, but he did command men to protect, provide, and preside over the family like Adam did. Yet again, my opponent took a scripture out of context and made it sound contrary to gospel belief. 1 Corinthians 11:2-10 does NOT order women to wear veils. Look at the background of this scripture, Paul addressed the Corinthian Saints questions about customs for men and women when they prayed and prophesied during their worship services. These customs included the practice of women wearing head coverings. Readers of the New Testament sometimes misunderstand Paul's teachings to mean that a mans role is more important than a woman's role. We know that Paul isn't demeaning women in this chapter. Paul even says in 1 Corinthians 11:16: "But if any man seem to be contentious, we have no such custom, neither the churches of God." So Paul discouraged the act of women wearing veils, he didn't order them. In 1 Timothy 2:11"12, Paul said, "Let the woman learn in silence with all subjection. But I suffer not a woman to teach." Some people have taken these verses to mean that women were not allowed to speak in church in Paul"s day. However, his recommendation that women "learn in silence" may have been an effort to correct a specific problem where some women were usurping the authority of Church leaders (1 Timothy 2:11). So Paul was not demeaning women, he was just keeping them from overtaking the divine roles of men in the church. Both genders should not try to usurp each others roles. Well in Genesis, we can clearly see that Adam was a man. Genesis 2:5: "and there was not a man to till the ground." Genesis 2:8: "And the LORD God planted a garden eastward in Eden; and there he put the man whom he had formed." Genesis 2:18: "And the LORD God said, It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him an help meet for him." I could go on forever. So clearly we can see that the Adam (the first person on earth) was a man. Also, in Genesis 3 Adam and Eve are commanded to have children. You need a man and woman to create a child. Since Eve was the woman (Genesis 2:22-23), Adam was most likley the man, so that they could finish the equation of creating life. So through all of these examples we can obviously see that Adam was a man. Also, if Adam means human, that doesn't make him without gender. My opponent arranged Titus 2:4-9 in such a way that it seemed like Paul called for women to be slaves. This is not true. By reading the whole chapter, we can see that false teachings were creeping in among the Saints on the Isle of Crete. Paul urged Titus to teach "sound doctrine" (Titus 2:1). Paul then gave several examples of how true doctrine will guide the behavior of men and women, old and young, and servants. To show this, I will post Titus 2:2-9 in its entirety. 2 That the aged men be sober, grave, temperate, sound in faith, in charity, in patience. 3 The aged women likewise, that they be in behaviour as becometh holiness, not false accusers, not given to much wine, teachers of good things; 4 That they may teach the young women to be sober, to love their husbands, to love their children, 5 To be discreet, chaste, keepers at home, good, obedient to their own husbands, that the word of God be not blasphemed. 6 Young men likewise exhort to be sober minded. 7 In all things shewing thyself a pattern of good works: in doctrine shewing uncorruptness, gravity, sincerity, 8 Sound speech, that cannot be condemned; that he that is of the contrary part may be ashamed, having no evil thing to say of you. 9 Exhort servants to be obedient unto their own masters, and to please them well in all things; not answering again; 10 Not purloining, but shewing all good fidelity; that they may adorn the doctrine of God our Saviour in all things. So as you can see, this chapter in Titus has nothing to do with Women being slaves. Men and Women are equal in Genesis 1:27 (like I have stated many times). Nothing that my opponent has offered has indicated that gender roles in the NT (NEW testament) is contrary to the OT (OLD testament). I would like to thank you for your time and I strongly urge you to vote for the negative side of this debate. Sources: http://www.kingjamesbibleonline.org... https://www.lds.org...