our spiritual estate

I just read the below quote from Martin Luther in his Address to the Christian Nobility of the German Nation (1520).

... all Christians are truly of the spiritual estate, and there is no difference among them, save of office alone.

In context, he was rejecting the notion that those with a church calling were not higher than those with a secular calling. I think most Protestants readily accept that vocation or office does not make one more or less spiritual than another in this context. I wonder why we then have so much of an issue when some, like me, argue that a woman can be equal to a man in Christ and maintain that there are role differences?

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