Cheryl Schatz

gengwall,
Thanks for your thoughts. I must have been tired last night that I didn’t pick up those great points.

Indeed Mark’s example did not show that he is in authority over his wife and it did not show that Mark is a unilateral decision maker or that he would never tell his kids in any situation to go to his wife for a decision. That is unless he comes back and shows us that he doesn’t allow his wife to make decisions over her own make-up.

It also shows an ignorance of the Scripture since the Bible shows that wives are also rulers of the home. If Mark has not shown this to his wife and keeps her in ignorance for his own advantage, it makes me wonder about his silence or perhaps his own ignorance of the Greek.

It also makes me wonder how one can truly come up with a comp example of authority over his wife with unilateral submission which is never reciprocated in any way. I honestly can’t think of any examples. But then Mark’s stubborn claim that he would never stoop to be lower than his own wife to lift her up in her need may produce an example that I could not think of. I eagerly await his return.