Mark

Cheryl,

A while ago you stated that i did not have authority over my wife because i did not ‘take’ it. Now you have just said regarding Christ…

” He never took an authority to demand love but as the perfect example of husbandly love, He initiated the sacrifice, initiated the cherishing and initiated the clinging to or joining Himself with her.”

So according to your train of thought, Christ did not ‘take’ authority. Does he therefore also NOT HAVE ANY AUTHORITY? This appears like a fallacy in your critiques…inconsistencies. Again…

“I believe that men as “head” of their wives (not head over their wives) have been set up by God as the preeminent part of the body to initiate in every way so that the wife is granted equality and equal opportunity to serve God.”

Explain how this is equality? The husband is to initiate, which is his role but not the wife’s? This seems like a weak way of saying he is in a leadership position, just with more careful words. If it is the husbands job to initiate to lift his wife up, is she equally called to lift up her husband? I assume you have to say no, since the wife is never called the ‘head’ of the husband, which is what your comment is based on. Why have you jumped from the marriage to service for God, saying the husbands job is to initiate to give her an equal opportunity to serve God. Seems like you missed the point of marriage? Can you state clearly what ‘head’ means for you in ALL of Paul’s usages. I’ll list all the passages from Paul’s letters, and you can give your defintion next to each.

will heap burning coals on his head.” Ro 12:20 2776
that Christ is the head of every man, 1Co 11:3 2776
and the man is the head of a woman, 1Co 11:3 2776
woman, and God is the head of Christ. 1Co 11:3 2776
something on his head while praying or 1Co 11:4 2776
or prophesying disgraces his head. 1Co 11:4 2776
her head uncovered while praying or 1Co 11:5 2776
or prophesying disgraces her head 1Co 11:5 2776
as the woman whose head is shaved. 1Co 11:5
if a woman does not cover her head, 1Co 11:6
her hair cut off or her head shaved, 1Co 11:6
head shaved, let her cover her head. 1Co 11:6
ought not to have his head covered, 1Co 11:7 2776
a symbol of authority on her head, 1Co 11:10 2776
a woman to pray to God with her head 1Co 11:13
or again the head to the feet, 1Co 12:21 2776
gave Him as head over all things to Eph 1:22 2776
aspects into Him who is the head, Eph 4:15 2776
the husband is the head of the wife, Eph 5:23 2776
Christ also is the head of the church, Eph 5:23 2776
He is also head of the body, the Col 1:18 2776
the head over all rule and authority; Col 2:10 2776
and not holding fast to the head, Col 2:19