Do you really think that ancient Greek and Roman culture was so very different from ours or that 21st century society is the first one that has ever understood how different women and men are?
Yes, the difference in culture is quite significant. Look at the difference between cotemporary cultures today, then imagine the cultural differences that have occurred in 2 millenia.
Where do I say that we have full understanding of the matter or that we are the first to understand anything? You are attributing an awful lot of strawman arguments to me. I do hope that you agree that our understanding of physiology and the biology of men and women is greater than it was 2000 years ago?
Human nature hasn't changed one jot in 2000 years. It is when you understand this that you will be able to make a start on understanding the cultures of the New Testament period. It is when you begin with respect for those peoples, that they weren't just a bunch of idiot primitives, and that they were human beings with exactly the same nature as you, that you will make real sense of the New Testament. Until then, and as demonstrated more than sufficiently by your patronising verbiage above, you will not understand the New Testament at all.
Where did I say that human nature changed significantly or that the ancient Greeks and Romans were primitive idiots? I have said no such thing.
I said that they channeled their cultural understanding in their texts and I said they defined roles for gender based on their understanding of biology, Aristotle's view of man and woman was dominant, a view which simply doesn't hold water in light of what we know about biology. That does not mean that Aristotle was an idiot anymore than the discoveries of Einstein implies that Newton was an idiot. It simply implies that knowledge progresses, and we should acknowledge that they operated under vastly different assumptions about a variety of things, gender being one example, and those assumptions were informed by their best knowledge at the time.
