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Pastor Elisabet Lieven of the Evangelical Church of the Lutheran Confession in Brazil (IECLB) develops a biblical study analyzing the words of the Apostle Paul calling "wives to be silent. In her analysis, she highlights some questions about the reasons for these words, highlighting that they "always disturb". Among other things, she wondered about the reasons for this statement, as well as the pain they caused and cause. In the same sense, she also suggested that Paul's request could not be related to the questions made by the women in the community. In addition, she took up the words of the LWF gender policy, which state: "We feel on our skin how these exclusionary words have slaughtered, burned and humiliated Christian women throughout the centuries" and stressed that as women, they wish to respond to Paul: "We want to say all that we choke and swallow, we want to sing all our songs and recite all our poetry! We want to live the freedom of being who we are without having to prove anything and feel guilty about anything!"