If Jesus was about tearing down all of of the cultural barriers that kept people from God why didn't he come as a female? If God really wanted to challenge the patriarchal culture of his day would it have been better for Jesus to have
come as a female instead of male?
Questions surrounding the “Junia” of Romans 16:7 have been circulating for centuries in the Church. For the first 1,000 years of Church history, the vast majority of commentators agreed that this name should be translated as Junia, a woman's name.
To understand this larger passage, a good starting point is in verse 10: "For this reason a woman ought to have a symbol of authority upon her head, because of the angels."
"I am so glad that for all the intellectual work Woodland Hills engages in, it has not forgotten the power and reality of the spiritual realm. Thanks for this."
