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Some theologians will tell you that if St. Paul knew how some of his writings and epistles would've been later used, distorted and justified as official papal or church doctrines towards persecutions of Jews, non-Christian Germanic pagans, Old Norse Scandinavian communities who resisted and actively fought against Christian proselytization for centuries until early-mid 11th century, he might have been a bit more cautious before writing it.Ever heard of Pope Gregory IX?
Ever read passages like Ephesians 6:11-16?
Ever heard of the Malleus Maleficarum?
There. Go read.
Because many of Paul's epistles or commentaries in New Testament, in their original context, met something very different to him and early Christian churches who felt persecuted, ostracized and in constant danger from Roman authorities who viewed them with suspicion. His or those words meant something very different from how later Christian leaders would interpret it and manipulate it for their own ends.
The Malleus Malefaricarum is a product of two German "witch-hunters" as an quack book that supposedly serves as an official how-to guide on discovering, outing, and different forms of executions for witches. You have to keep in mind before the Black Death bubonic plague nearly wiped 1/4th of European populations, global temperatures aligned with "Little Ice Age" or Medieval Cooling Period, from late 13th century to late 19th century, that devastated cities, farms, harvests, commoners beliefs in God's saving grace or the power and integrity of Church to save them or help in any significant way. This period of European history, System, has been called the Crisis of the Late Middle Ages. Earlier on centuries before in 10-13th centuries, Church's policies towards witches or witchcraft, while hostile and nasty, didn't mostly call for inquisitions, burning at the stakes, or mass drownings, most priests found witches to be nuisances and argued they were mostly harmless and had no power to do really anything.
Centuries of declining, detoriating social, economic, and political tensions and radical changes in European domestic power politics saw a fertile environment for drastic extremes that created books like the Malleus Maleficarum. Even during Salem Witch trials, if a man or woman admitted to being a witch, as unjust as it really was and seems to us, they'd be sent away to live in exile far away from any Puritan villages, towns, or cities.