Lady Bishops

I am so sad about the split in our church that I can think of nothing to do or say which could help, so I came here to pour my heart out, and ask for any learned lady (or man) to answer me a few questions.

I am a 21st Centaury man and am very aware that I want to love everyone equally regardless of colour, creed, sex or sexuality. 

I am also a Christian and know that there are constraints set upon the physical and spiritual universe which our God creates.  In the past I have enjoyed various sins, throwing myself into them with great alacrity, but God showed me that biblically this was not the way forward.

He is right.  I have been healed of a lot.  I could not see the right way forward, but belief in God's word, the Sword of the Spirit, changed me physically and spiritually.

How can our church elders have so profoundly ignored the bible to declare a place for women Bishops with no recompense for those who believe otherwise.

Paul is absolutely clear on the subject.  He speaks clearly in two separate letters, in two different circumstances.  If we choose to say that this is culture specific we are in danger of questioning whether the entire bible is culture specific.  The claim seems to be that women were not appreciated in that culture. Fair enough.  Then why was this question raised?  Surely it was only raised because there were women who wanted to speak. As they do now.  People have told me that sex before marriage is a cultural thing which is outmoded by modern sexuality.  I will argue with them.

How is the church seemingly arguing against that!  Sexuality has changed?

Can anyone show anything in the new testament which goes against these quotes?

1 Timothy 2:12 (King James Version)
But I suffer not a woman to teach, nor to usurp authority over the man, but to be in silence

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.

The only arguments I have heard point out good women, or good women speakers, or what happens now.

Should follow the authority of the bible (as we teach in Alpha!)? If God said we ought to paint our right knee blue in church, then please pass me the paint.  This is the reason I do not wear caps in church, it very specifically says a man should not cover his head in church. 

But the authority we are under seems to have stood by and told us that we ought to bow to the world's view of women and authority, and override what seems to be the very clear word of God in the bible.

Can anyone justify this biblically.  I do not want to rebel against the authority my God has put over me, but I am aware that Jesus did not come to bring peace but to set son against father.

Do I have to become a fatherless son to my church?
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