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Cheryl – along with circular reasoning, hierarchialists also resist the inevitable “in for a penny, in for a pound” reality of their position. They equivocate and use safe sounding words and phrases to not sound “authoritarian” even though they want the husband to be the “authority”. But the reality is you can’t have it both ways. If you are going to use Jesus’ lordship and authority as the model, you have to go the whole 9 yards (ok, enough cliches). The husband has to be everything that Jesus is to the world and the church: husband is law giver; husband is high priest; husband is father; husband is savior; husband is ruler; husband is king; husband is god. They will say “well, I don’t mean THAT”. But the reality is that you can’t avoid that if the husband is the “lord” of the marriage. Anything less and they have absolutely no support for their position. The husband can’t be kinda, sorta, just a little bit lord, for Jesus is no such thing. So if wives really, really want their husband to be Jesus the Lord (instead of Jesus the bridegroom), then they have to accept their husband as all powerful king. If they accept a less powerful alternative, they are actually denying Jesus’ lordship.