Cheryl Schatz

NN,
Your answer to Sue did not answer the question of whether the husband as “higher” authority can overrule his wife’s will. And it also did not answer my question about how the wife’s authority as ruler of the world somehow became a “lesser authority”. To claim such a demotion one surely should have a direct Scripture to show it.

I have another question that is based on Susanna’s and my own experience in our marriages. If our husbands now chose to allow us to experience freedom to make decisions without being overruled and they do not take authority over us like they used to, are they now in sin? Are they sinning against us or are they sinning against God? And why would the “sin” of not taking authority over one’s wife create a oneness that take authority over one’s wife could not if God instituted the model of “authority over”? Are you seriously telling us that God’s law is that we go back to the way we were or do you think that perhaps you argument is placed so that your own model of taking authority over your wife’s will is affirmed?

And if you don’t take authority over her will, why don’t you? If you don’t you are living like we are. How could you say that we are not living out the correct marriage model if you aren’t taking authority over your wife?

I love the way the Lord Jesus showed us the correct way by never taking authority over his disciples will but wooing them and convincing them of the right way so that they are alongside him instead of a will taken over.