SG. Well done, with the greek. It sounds much better coming from you.
Yes, dear. I am a bit of a show-off. But it usually serves a purpose besides underlining my intellectual genius (an end in itself some might say) and your fondness for truth is matched by my fondness for precision. Who said what, where, exactly. And what does it mean.
That same fondness for precision also causes me to know that Ephesians is one of the disputed Pauline letters, so he may not be to blame for the content at all. The last line of my Ephesians post was snark, not theological argument.
Does it "work"?
I'm not arguing with you that wives should respect their husbands. But this passage goes much further. What we have here is a line, something like this:
God/Christ ---- > husband -----> wife
The wife must obey her husband as her husband must obey God. Put differently, God appears to her through the prism of her husband, so she must obey him as if he were God.
Sorry blackfoot. It doesn't work.
Yes, I respect my husband. I defer to his expertise in those areas where, by either education or natural inclination, he is more experienced and knowledgeable than I.
There are other areas, where, either by education or natural inclination, I am more experienced and knowledgeable than he, and in those areas I would not budge an inch. Would he insist on his "headship" and overrule me, simply because he is "the man" I would not respect that at all.
My respect is grounded on the fact that I know he is, all ego and testosterone related issues aside, he is committed to the facts above all. As am I.
I do not need a prism to see the world, or God, or truth. That is where I and the anonymous letter-writer will always differ.
