Susanna Krizo

Mark, I need to go to the gym but I wanted to correct one though of your:
You wrote: “You have proved exactly the point. References to Jesus or the Spirit’s divinity are not an ‘explicit’ mention of a Trinity. We must group all relevant information together to form our theology of the Trinity. So why is it, you refuse to do that on the gender debate, but rather require an ‘explicit’ reference.”

In the case of the trinity, the whole point is to prove that Jesus is God. Does the Bible say explicitly that Jesus is God? Yes, it does: In the beginning was the Word… (John 1:1). The trinity is created to explain how one God can contain three Gods, but we do not need to use the concept “Trinity,” we can say simply: Jesus is God and show where in the Bible it says so. I.e we take an EXPLICIT verse and make an IMPLICIT concept of it.
In the case of the man’s headship you take an IMPLICIT concept and make it into an EXPLICIT commandment, since the Bible does not say “God gave the man authority.” I.e you must use the whole list you gave to create your conclusion that God gave the man authority. In the case of the Trinity, this is not needed, instead the lists of verses are used to fortify the already existing explicit verses, which is true of all theology. I assume you are a protestant? Do you support such doctrines as the purgatory, infant baptism, Papal authority, original sin, indulgencies? And if not, why not?