Thinking about how the New Testament uses Isaiah and the prophets will make us see that there is both continuity and discontinuity in the move from Isaiah to Jesus.
Prayer is a God-given way for God’s people to make a situation more open for God, to give God more room to work, knowing that God always has our best interests at heart.
Did Paul write things that have been used by Christians to do great damage to women and that have hampered the work of the church for centuries? Absolutely. Did Paul also write things that suggest he believed men do not possess superiority over women, as well as things that support women’s full participation in public Christian leadership? Absolutely.
The majority of New Testament Scholars rightly doubts that the Gospel of Thomas offers much by the way of new or unique insight into Jesus of Nazareth.