Kristen

All of this stuff about the brain controlling the body is imposing our modern understanding on Paul, who had no such understanding. To him, according to the way things were understood then, the heart was the seat of the will, mind and emotions. The head was the source of life for the body, that kept it functioning. It was not considered to be the control center for the body. Obviously no such “head-controls-body” metaphor for husband and wife was meant by the original author or understood by the original audience.
As for the Levitical priesthood and such– NN, show me where God carried forward such choosing-according-to-birth into the New Covenant. please. On the contrary– the Book of Hebrews specifically tells us that the New Covenant supercedes the Levitical priesthood, and Galatians says God chooses “the child of the promise,” not the “child of the flesh” to be Abraham’s seed.
The whole “Our birth is not accidental, therefore I’m born to rule over my wife, but I must understand that this is an obligation and a responsibility, not a privilege” is nothing more than the old “noblesse oblige” idea. I would like to know why the failed idea of “noblesse oblige” as being biblical or Christian, must continue to be carried into the husband-wife relationship when it has been discontinued in all other understandings of New Covenant human relations.