Susanna Krizo

Thanks Cheryl! Samuel is adorable, the cutest baby ever according to everyone who sees him. But… he is definitely a handful and beyond.

NN, that you did not write anything about women teaching does not mean that it is not the logical outcome of your thinking. In comp. theology the church-home connection is a major tenent, based on the fact that the man was created first and has therefore authority over the woman. It is because of the man’s prior creation the comps claim God denies women the right to teach men.

I don’t understand how comps can claim that the man has the same authority Christ has without making the man divine. Neither do I understand how they justify a man’s submission to another man. God the Father- God the Son is already used to further justify the submission of women to men, hence there really is no justification, or comparison, for a hierarchy between two men, which is why both Augustine and Thomas Aquinas wrote that a man became subject to another man by accident and was caused by sin. There is no way around the fact that submission to authority is caused by sin and was not part of original creation. Chrysostom wrote that neither God nor the man said anything about subjection to the woman and it was because of Eve’s sin that all women were subjected to men. This was also the view of Tertullian and Jerome. Augustine tried to create a creation based subjection of women to men, but he had to use Neo-Platonism to do so (just as Thomas Aquinas had to use Aristotle) and he contradicted himself at least five times.
BTW, here’s the verse about Christ dying and becoming lord:

Rom 14:9
For to this end Christ died and rose and lived again, that He might be Lord of both the dead and the living (NKJV)

Don’t forget that if you are trying to make the man the woman’s lord, she becomes his slave since “kyrios” refers to a slave owner, wherefore the early Christians called themselves the slaves of God. “Kyrios” can also refer to a polite way of addressing a man, and this is the way it is used in the NT when two equals address each other. If you try to make Abraham Sarah’s lord, you make Sarah Abraham’s slave.