text: I know churches that do let women be elders. Does Imago Dei still require females to cover their heads and keep silence, as commanded in I Corinthians 11:5 and 14:21? Of course not: you pick and choose, as "Neighbor98" says above. Imago Dei could easily treat women completely equally if they wanted, just ignore the culturally irrelevant verses in the New Testament that prevent them doing so.