Craig

Gengwall @335,
You quoted
“In “Head over all things”, “head” is not being used in any metaphor so we look at the context and possible meanings of “kephale” (like authority, source, origin) to determine its meaning.”
You then said
“I missed this part – thanks TL for bringing it up.
Mark – are you purposely playing ignorant of the next verse? How can you claim “head over all things” is not part of a head/body metaphor when the very next phrase is “to the church, (v. 23) Which is his body…”?”

I (Craig) just thought something should be corrected. Mark didn’t write this, I did. I also wrote it to ask if I was correct, not to make a statement of fact. Unlike most of you here I am quite new to this subject so I may say some stupid things that don’t make sense to you. I am certainly not “playing ignorant” as you asked of Mark- my questions are from genuine ignorance! I have watched Cheryl’s DVDs and read some of the posts and comments. I can see a lot of positive points in favour of the Egal position but I still have many questions.
My reason for thinking that “head” in “head over all things” (Eph 1:22) was not the anatomical head of the metaphor is because if “all things” means “all things of this world” I have never seen an anatomical head attached to that! However, I can see that “head” of v 22 and “body” of v23 is the metaphor so “head” seemed to be being used in two different ways in the one passage. Hence my confusion and asking for help. BTW, this whole discussion has been very helpful, but I feel as though I will have to reread it a few times to digest things properly.