Charis

I just lost a whole reply and I’m bowing out, NOT because I am sensitive or taking it personally. I think the assumptions and accusations are more a reflection on the people making them than on myself and I don’t take them personally. But when I spend time on replies that are going into a black hole, its poor stewardship and I always regret it!

I spent some time reading several posts on nn’s blog this morning and I am not sure he and I see eros in Eph 5 in the same manner but I did attempt to illustrate that in my comment 376.

eg. nn’s post about “perfecting” his wife. Based on her personal testimony of a clear “before and after” I though Cheryl might be able to grasp how a husband through choosing to follow the unilateral instructions to husbands to “nourish and cherish” to understand and to live with and value as a co-heir has a part in bringing his wife to perfection.

How does Ephesians convey eros?

The husband plants the seed into his open vulnerable wife (who IS subject to him in everything as the church is subject to Christ). The resulting “ONE FLESH” is nourished and cherished by the wife as her own body (BY NATURE AND DESIGN). ONLY the husband is expressly instructed to NOURISH and CHERISH his wife as his own body. To do so, he needs to choose to lay down life and die to himself.

The “one flesh” within the wife is PERFECTED through her nourishing and cherishing. I agree with nn that a nourishing and cherishing, laying down life husband plays a HUGE part in “perfecting” his wife. And one that is doing the opposite plays a huge part in aborting her potential.