gengwall

Mark – “Now the question is, wihtin the Christ/Church model, does auhtority exist. I believe it does. I’m not denying that we are co-heirs with Chirst etc- they are glorious truths, but rather also affirming that we will all bow down and worship Jesus as Lord (Phil 2). ”

This is the entire problem with your argument. Phil 2 is not a marriage or head/body metaphor. Nowhere in the bible does it say that Christ’s bride will bow down before Him. Christ has many different types of relationships with humanity and they can not be morphed into one all encompassing top-down gierarchy. Eph 5 is one; Phil 2 is an entirely different one. There is no way to draw a parallel between the two. They are describing totally different relational paradigms.