ANSWER: Since God’s Word is “truth,” it is clear there can be no contradiction. First of all, Paul’s passages do not prohibit a woman from prophesying or teaching, as did Priscilla, working privately with her husband in instructing Apollos (Acts 18:26), and as did the virgin daughters of Philip, the evangelist (Acts 21:8-9). Paul’s passages in context simply show that a woman is not permitted to engage in the kind of public teaching or prophesying which exercises rule or authority over the man; that in such settings she is to be in subjection (1 Timothy 2:11) and under obedience (1 Corinthians 14:34). Neither does Acts 2:17-18 imply that the prophesying to be done by female recipients of this gift of the Holy Spirit was to be done publicly; in a way to exercise authority over the man. Those who hold that it does are reading something into God’s Word that is not there, but is really nothing more than an assumption of fallible man! To so assume is to sin (Galatians 1:6-9; Revelation 22:18-19). The passages under consideration do not contradict, but, rather, are in complete harmony as is all of the Word of God!