Susanna Krizo

Ah, baby didn’t wake up yet, so I have time for one more comment.
Mark, you asked me how I had answered Grudem’s challenge. The answer is very simple: because hypotasso is never the coupled with authority. Even in Rom 13, the PEOPLE are called exousia (authorities), but they are not said to HAVE AUTHORITY, they are called authorities, i.e it is just a way to say government. We are told to submit to the people, i.e. the people who govern the land, not to their authority. Let me explain a bit more. In comps view a wife should submit to the husband because he has authority, but in the case of the government, we are told to submit to the people themselves, not their decisions. I.e. we are told to agree with them, and not resist them (by breaking the law). The rules are common and made by the people, not the government without the people. A judge does not come up with a decision of his own according to his preferences, he uses the law of the land to meet out justice. In the case of a husband, he makes decisions based on his preferences (i.e. where should the family live, eat etc.) unless he makes a joint decision with his wife, in which case we have mutual submission instead of tyranny. And this is where Grudem’s logic fails. If only the husband makes decisions, and if only the wife always obeys regardless of the outcome, it is called tyranny. Tyranny may work, but it is not biblical.