SM

NN (249),

Your article hinges on your thesis–your claim from Eph 5:22 that “it becomes apparent that there is another sort of love operative here – “eros”…. The presence of this type of love is distinctive of the marriage relationship…. And if we recognize that this sort of love is between two inequivalent people then the hierarchical nature of the marital relationship instructed by Paul becomes evident.”

As I see it, this is the critical issue as it relates to your article under discussion here. The rest of your article hinges on how well you support your thesis from scripture. (I understand this to be a theological discussion.)

NN, I am simply asking you to sell me your thesis. You make a claim but fail to support it with “all the available evidence provided by scripture [you] have read.” (NN at 239)

Once this issue of “eros” is “put to bed”, then we can move forward because your thesis is unsupported.

Fortunately for me this isn’t rocket science or physics. All I am simply asking for in this theological discussion is “all the available evidence provided by scripture [you] have read” that supports the foundation of your article.