Cheryl Schatz

Mark #56,

To continue from your comments.

Now from the threaded comments, most assume this means that a wife has no choices or options- that she is just ‘property’ i saw someone write. But is this the way we view our selves as Christ’s bride?

Mark, we are not denying the need to have willingly submission to serve Christ and to receive from Him the gifts that He wants to give us. The issue is whether the husband has a legitimate authority to command submission or if the authority that is claimed belongs to the husband is one usurped from Christ.

Wives then give willing submission to their husbands because they love them and want to serve their needs. In what way would authority even be needed in the human relationship? What “rights” belong to this authority? Since God never delegated an authority to the husband, what “rights” would go along with an un-given authority?

We know that the husband has the right over his wife’s sexuality because that is clearly given along with the wife’s right to her husband’s sexuality. That is why neither one of them has the right to have a physical relationship with another person because that right does not belong to them to give away. But what “right” does a husband claim to have that is never given to him in the Scripture? Since authority goes along with “rights”, it is amazing that husbands can swallow the idea that they have authority over their wives when Scripture never tells them what “rights” they have that are not also given to the wife.