gengwall

NN- be careful what you wish for. Are you really suggesting that husbands should think for their wives and control every one of their actions (not that the brain does this but you seem to think it does)? Is that really where you want to go?

The point is that the brain does not exercise “authority” over the body, nor is there any authoritarian hierarchy within the human body. Paul makes it perfectly clear that this equal, mutually dependent anatomical is mirrored in the Body of Christ, of which Christ is a part, in another anatomical metaphor in 1 Corinthians 12:11-27. Not only does Paul never say that the head commands the body, he explicitely states that the head cannot command the body.