Women in the pulpit

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Steven S. wrote:
I Cor 14:34-35 are also very plain: "Let your women keep silence in the 
churches: for it is not permitted unto them to speak; but they are 
commanded to be under obedience as also saith the law. And if they will 
learn any thing, let them ask their husbands at home: for it is a shame 
for women to speak in the church."  The context of the chapter is order,
subjection and discipline in the church.  The context is not to say that
women must not speak one word from the moment they come in until they
leave, but certainly, they are not to preach to men, nor to be leaders
in the church.

Steven Hall wrote:
Paul wasn't saying for the women to keep silence, He was answering a
statement made by the Corinthians, church leaders, (look in chater 1 Cor
7:1  "Now concerning the things whereof ye wrote unto me:"

The statement in 1 Cor 14:34  Let your women keep silence in the
churches: for it is not permitted unto them to speak; but they are
commanded to be under obedience, as also saith the law.
1 Cor 14:35  And if they will learn any thing, let them ask their
husbands at home: for it is a shame for women to speak in the church.

Pauls answer was, a resounding, "WHAT!
Like if I make a statement like, "Pentecostals should always do what the
preacher says above the bible, when there is a question."
To a ridiculous statement as this you might say, "What!" we must always
go by the bible.

Another example of this being true is the fact that, "as also saith the
law." Paul would never have given instruction like this because we are
not under the law.(quote from verse 34 of Cor 14)
Rom 6:14  For sin shall not have dominion over you: for ye are not under
the law, but under grace.
Your servant for Jesus sake, 
Steven Hall