Amaranth

@Craig “The only answer to that seems to be that “you are changing the meaning of the word depending on the relationship- you can’t do that- words have meanings.”
But then the comp will say “but isn’t that exactly what you do with the word ‘head’- you change its meaning to suit different contexts?”

What I understand comps to be doing is taking the English word “authority”, and trying to twist it to mean something other than the English definition of “be in charge of”. So no, in that case, you really can’t take a word in one language and say it means something else in the same language.

The head debate, on the other hand, seems to be a discrepancy between what the English word “head” means now, and what the Greek word “kephale” meant in Paul’s time. Thus, there’s a gap of both language and time, in which the word could have conceivably changed. Egals aren’t changing the meaning to fit context…they’re using context to discover what the meaning was in the first place.