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To Susanna (comment #36)

On the authority of Christ – yes He calls his disciples (and by extension us) friends. Are you saying that this means He therefore doesn’t have authority over us? That His commandments are really not binding on us if we don’t think that they are good ideas? That when he said “All authority in heaven and earth” what He really meant to say was “all authority except over you who are my friends. No, surely not.

(Post Script on comment # 37 – I said nothing about women teaching or not teaching men.)
Christ was LORD from before His immaculate conception (“before Abraham was I AM”). And it is worth noting that every tongue will confess that Jesus Christ is Lord. Some will confess in willing and reconciled submission and some in grudging defeat but ALL WILL CONFESS. Jesus is Lord, He could not be else – but in His lordship He loved us so much that He died to reconcile our rebellion-damned selves to His loving Lordship. Christ did not die to become the Lord, He died to make us reconciled to our Lord.