In Timothy, the death and resurrection of Christ signaled a new POV in religion. The death was to bring forth the comforter or the Holy Spirit, which would teach one all truth.
Paul discusses this transition as the death of the outer man or Children of the Bond Woman, and the formation of the inner man or children of the Promise. The outward expressions of law and religion ritual were obsolete or connected to the children of the bondwoman.
The children of the promise would find truth from the inside. This extended the prophet phenomena to all the children. The inner man and holy spirit meant knowledge of truth comes from within. There was a certain common feeling of love, among the faithful, but with many manifestations of the spirit or inner voice, as part of the whole.
The old way was book, prophet and priests teaching the herd. The way of the inner man was each person was now a conduit of the one spirit. You were no longer a herd animal but a unique entity. But most people could not get used to this but preferred to be part of a herd and be told what to think; old traditions.
One practical problem with this new inner voice POV, is not all spontaneous creativity was from the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit was defined as the spirit of truth and was manifest with the feeling of love, peace, giving, etc. There was also creativity connected to the more base or earthy human emotions like greed, power, lust, etc, This creativity were considered doctrines of Demons. The way you could tell the difference was the emotions it would induce. The fire and brimstone created fear, so this was not of the spirit, except in an obsolete or retro way. This was a good way to herd the children of the bondwoman.
When the Catholic church forms, the inner voice is played down, because although there were many positive manifestation of creativity, there was much more earthy creativity. The net did not add up. The church used a more logical and procedural method to filter and incorporate bits and pieces.
But at the time of Timothy, the inner voice of creativity was open. Not all those so gifted created ideas in ways that were progressive for the faith, but rather also used this to create leverage over individuals. Prohibitions were retro but were still a useful way to control people for power and prestige.
For example politicians tell people lies that they don't have to keep. Although people know this, they will continue to follow the lie. The truth is often harder to accept. The result at the time of Timothy was the true faith was getting swallowed by the creativity of demons. People preferred strong and tough to soft and gentile so the lie was easier to accept. The church got rid of the open creativity of the inner spirit and instituted more of a screening process.
