You know also what is patently obvious: that some people, however innocently a few may be, are driving hoards of people away from the gospel, especially women.

It isn't "the offense of the cross" that's driving them away.

It isn't "the Way, the Truth, the Life" that's driving them away.

It is this effort to make Paul into the anti-Christ, to make him unravel everything Jesus said and did. Jesus treated women kindly, spoke to them in public, had compassion on them, healed them, raised them from the dead, accepted them as disciples, and even gave women the first opportunity to spread the Good News of his resurrection... to men who refused to believe them!

Jesus said that not even he "came to be served, but to serve", and as Paul said in Phil. 2:5-11, Jesus laid his divine privileges down and became the lowest of slaves, to the point of dying like a criminal. THAT, not what most men try to teach, is humility and love.

Either they have made Paul an anti-Christ, or they have done exactly what Peter said in 2 Peter 3:15-16--

"Bear in mind that our Lord’s patience means salvation, just as our dear brother Paul also wrote you with the wisdom that God gave him. He writes the same way in all his letters, speaking in them of these matters. His letters contain some things that are hard to understand, which ignorant and unstable people distort, as they do the other Scriptures, to their own destruction."