Mark

Dave my friend,

You are streching things are little thin don’t you think. Eph 5:24 says, ‘now as the church submits to Christ, so also wives should submit in everything to their husbands’- this is a tight link.

this never appears with the slave/master paradigm- not once. Sure slaves are told to obey their masters as they would Christ (6:5) which is similar to 5:22, but the relationship between slave/master is never linked to the relationship of church/Christ as the husband/wife is. This is pure facts we are dealing with, nothing else. The submission of wife/Christ, and slave/Christ is similar but again the relationship of Church/Christ is not.

Are you willing to say that the Christ/Church command is only cultural? If not, why not?