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Don Cook wrote:

Eric,

AskACatholic.com has assisted me reliably with a number of questions. I now have a question, which may be too difficult.

I don't understand the Church's reluctance to accept Paul's teaching that the Church has "neither male nor female.". I have read extensively and find some merit in the teaching that all the disciples were all men, but this doesn't seem to supercede "neither male nor female.".

  • Does definitive teaching on the subject exist?

Don Cook
  { Please explain the Church's reluctance to accept Paul's teaching as "neither male nor female."? }

Eric replied:

Don —

  • I am not sure what you are applying this principle of neither male nor female to?

The context in Galatians is salvation. Paul is telling Judaizers that salvation is universal, not restricted to Jews or otherwise those subject to the law. It is not meant to say that differences between men and women are now completely irrelevant.

Eric

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