Cheryl Schatz

Lydia,
Thanks for bringing this out of what Mark said:

“It is something God requires of her not me.”

For some reason I was reading fast and missed this sentence.

Mark,
It appears to me that you believe you do not need to give anything to your wife unless God requires it of you. You do not believe that God requires you to submit to your wife so you refuse to do so. Is that correct?

It is interesting that the term “submit” in Ephesians 5:21 is reciprocal and yet you will not submit to your wife. Could you give an example of what you will not do for your wife that you would see as an example of submitting to her?

I think that it is wise to give examples since for all of us to understand each other need to know just what we mean by words. I gave examples of submitting “one to another” with husbands, masters and children. Apparently, Mark, you don’t see these as examples of submitting but of “service”. Why don’t you give us examples of submitting? What do you see as an example of submission that your wife is “required” to do by God but that you are not “required” to do? What is an example of submission that a master is not required to do to his servant, but something that the servant is required to do for the master? What is an example of submission that a parent is not required to do for a child, but is an example of what a child is required to do for a parent? When you give these examples we are able to examine them so that we understand what exactly you mean by submission that doesn’t involve service.

Thanks for taking the time to do this for us, Mark. Don’t think you are submitting to a request 😉 These examples are needed to facilitate understanding.