Lydia

pinklight: I have been involved with the comp movement since the mid 1980’s even before the Danvers statement was published. They have elevated this doctrine to a primaryteaching of salvation. So, if you are not submitting to your husband (they define as obedience) then you are rebelling against God and believers do not do that.

If you think about it, this controls every area of a woman’s life if she is married. Even her spiritual relationship with Christ and striving to be guided by the Holy Spirit instead of a human.

If you can get a copy of RK McGregor Wright’s 3 part response to the Danvers statment, do so. It was revised around 1990 but it was unpublished. However, I like Wright’s response because he is seriously into the Sovereignty of God and he shows how lame and lacking it is in scriptural basis and how badly the proof texts are interpreted. And the statement is the basis for the modern comp movement. it is the basis for the advent of CBMW.