TL

”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”

Charis, 561

Having read your words over the years, I do understand better what you mean when you say that men (because of their superior physical strengths, because of their often superior social status, etc.) have a power to wound and hurt women who are more vulnerable. In fact, I don’t think anyone disagrees with you on that point. The problem is that you are trying to find somewhere in Scripture that states that explicitly and end up trying to read it into Scriptures that aren’t speaking or hinting of that because you cannot find it stated explicitly elsewhere. IMO the best and perhaps ONLY place where it might be accurately seen is in Gen. 3:16. The verb mashal means dominate, down lord, rule. That is the only place in Scripture where it is inferred that husbands will have or will exercise any kind of authority, power, dominion, rule. And it is not God authored. It is something God is warning Eve, that her husband will do. And we can take that as a warning that because of sin, many men will indeed do the same — seek to take dominion over their wives.

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

Well, it is not amusing to hear you claim that anyone in the whole body of Christ would say that men and women are the same. Being equal does not mean being ‘the same’. I’m sure you know that.