Quote Originally Posted by ajaxfetish View Post
Going back to the debate taking place on the previous page, the bible may not include any accounts of female priests or apostles, but it does make note of female judges, female prophetesses, and numerous female disciples of Jesus, some in very prominent positions. The human involved in Jesus' birth was a woman. The first person to see the resurrected Jesus was a woman. In later Catholic tradition, numerous prominent figures, including heads of abbeys, mystics, advisers to Popes, and saints, including of course the ultimate Catholic saint, have been women. Considering all the roles, authority, and respect women have been given within the church, it seems strange that there is no mention of women serving as priests.

Explanations could include some important reason either unrevealed by God or revealed and lost, mention of female priesthood purposefully left out by the compilers of the bible, or the influence of the writings attributed to Paul, which seem quite sexist in comparison to the rest of the new testament, and which also contain the theological basis for the similarly controversial celibacy requirement for priesthood.

Ajax
Just because they ware some proeminent Christian female disciples in the early Church doesn't imply that women should serve as priesthood.
Just look at the Jews in Israel.
They had a woman prime minister and women commanders in the Army yet there isn't a single Jewish lesbian female rabbi.
In the Early Church and Orthodox ones men and women knew their place in the Church and noone wanted to cross the line just for the sake of "it's possible". If you check the other 2 branches of The Old Testament (Mosaism and Mahomedism) you'll see the whole issue of ordaining women in the Church is C**P.
The Biblical reason for not ordaining female priests lies after the assencion of Christ.
Mary Magdalena dissapears completely after spreading the news about Christ's resurection and noone hears about her again. Virgin Mary travels to Greece where she founds a small Christian settlement at the foothills of Mt. Athos.
There are some Christian martyrs that ware female canonised both in Orthodox and Catholic Churches but that's about it.
Women can't serve as priests in Church just as men can't give birth. You can't have gay priests either because Paul wrote a special letter to the Corinthians which blames the gays of sodomy.

Every reformation of the Church has ended badly.
1. The Schism created a highly volatile Pontif in the West who would later crusade against his ailing followers
2. The Reformations and Counter-Reformations also had their share of blood
3. Luther was a Judas to the Baumakrieg and Calvin a Moloch to Geneva
4. The Anglican Church was made for the sole purpose of helping the King divorce
5. People are so buisy now with Rome and Protestantism that they forgot Jerusalem and Orthodoxy.