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Dave (555)

I find that frustrating, as egals will do that with other words. They will take the lexicon listing and choose the definition they like.

Scripture interprets scripture. If JESUS says “this is what authority is to look like” I’ll take his word over Webster’s every time.

If you are stuck on Webster, then I choose to do the egal thing and I select from the listing the definition “POWER”. Husbands have POWER. Egals can deny that till they are blue in the face and it doesn’t change it. Husbands have POWER to deeply wound their wives, to pierce them. OR they have POWER to return to the Garden of Eden- to lift their wife up beside them to share dominion – Ephesians 1:20-22, 2:6

And though wives have POWER too (to wound their husbands in various ways) I THINK based on a wife being SUBJECT TO HER HUSBAND IN EVERYTHING AS THE CHURCH IS SUBJECT TO CHRIST that husbands have greater power to wound their wives than vice versa. GOD KNOWS a woman’s characteristics and vulnerabilites.

Its amusing to me that scientific research has proven the differences between men and women but the drumbeat continues that they are the same.

Kristen (535) http://strivetoenter.com/wim/2010/05/23/authority-vs-submission-biblical-view/#comment-12407

The woman (later named Eve) responded differently when confronted with her decision to eat the fruit. http://godswordtowomen.wordpress.com/2008/01/02/adam-and-eves-response-to-their-failure-compared/ Cheryl has noted this and blogged on it before.

Ever since, like their anatomy, women tend to internalize shame (accept blame) and men tend to externalize shame (blameshift). Scientific research confirms this. Here’s a link: Women guilty of feeling too guilty, study shows
Many men, on the other hand, stay emotionally detached, study suggests