Red flag: claiming Paul uses a word differently than everyone in his culture understood it

When someone claims a biblical author uses a word that everyone in their culture understood one way but means something totally different, strong evidence is required. Mike quotes the Talmud: 'he who loves his wife as himself and honors her more than himself' was considered exemplary, yet this didn't mean the husband lacked higher authority. If first-century readers could love/honor a wife without it undoing authority, then Paul's audience wouldn't have understood Ephesians 5 as eliminating authority either.