Susanna Krizo

Context, context, context!!

Eph 5:1-3
Therefore be imitators of God as dear children. 2 And walk in love, as Christ also has loved us and given Himself for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweet-smelling aroma. NKJV

All Christians are told to live a life of love AS CHRIST HAS LOVED US AND GIVEN HIMSELF TO US! I.e. ALL Christians should live as Christ, loving each other (John 13-17), and to love with self-sacrificing love (agape) which is God’s love for us. It is not just for husbands to imitate Christ, Paul even says “imitate me as I imitate Christ,” we should all be like Christ, which is why we are called Christians. (Now that is an axiom, if nothing else is! LOL)

Hey Cheryl, I think we won the debate (doing the victory dance…), for you know you have won when the opposing party gets nasty (rule #1 in debating: the one who gets mad has already lost). If the foundation of Mark and NN’s theology is that the Bible never says explicitly that a husband ought to submit to his wife, then egals are right, for it is the weakest argument that exists and is disproven in about three seconds. As far as Gen 1-3 is concerned, Grudem & co all agree that it does not mention the man’s headship which is why they have to go to the NT to find it (which is equivalent of saying the Constitution affirms slavery three thousand years from now).