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In my own lifetime ive seen churchs Go from forbidding even married couples to sit together to allowing women preachers.Many churchs in my neck of the woods have 2 doors on the front.Men entered from one door,women the other,and each sat on opposite sides of the church,even if they were married.Women were forbidden to speak or even teach sunday school.Now those same churchs,people sit wherever they wish and women preach the word.

The question is always "what does the Bible say", i.e., what does it REALLY say ?

It tells us who should be teaching elders - it tells us what to look for in a teaching elder. It's all laid out in the Bible. But we have to a) read it and b) follow it.

Now, if I was teaching people computer programming and they kept coming up with all kinds of mind games about why I was wrong, I'd simply stop teaching them, because they want to play games not learn.

Look up "be still before the Lord". This has to do with, basically, one has to stop the yappy-yap, actually listen and actually try to learn.

Even Saint Peter was told by God to change the way he taught and tried to save sinners.So yes,God changes,and the church changes.

God revealed himself to the Apostles - not all at once, but progressively over time. God goes one step at a time, just what we need, when we need it, no more, no less. And if you want to be very technical and take a few years to research, or perhaps a lifetime, you'll find that what God reveals in Scripture is consistent from beginning to end. Just know that a man can never understand the entire Bible completely.

God created heaven and earth - all of this, all of us. Everything. He then has set everything in motion.

We are part of his creation, created in his image, but still he created us.

There are very small inconsistencies in the Bible if you want to be "technical". But if you want to be that "technical", it's time to seriously study the Bible so as to be discussing it intelligently.

What one finds out eventually is that everything in the Bible has a purpose; it is God revealing himself to us.

Pieter,I think you are of the crowd that believes that women should be silen in church,and never be preachers?
I believe God and Jesus many times broke that rule.
Setting up female judges to rule over Isreal.Setting up female Prophetesses to preach and declare the coming of salvation.Sending the woman married seven times to preach to her town,and sending Mary Magdelene to preach the Gospel “He Is Risen!” to the disciples themselves.
If God and Jesus can use women to preach His word,who are we to set rules saying they cant?Or is it just youre tradition speaking?