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Sorry if I’m asking the same questions in the same circle, but I’m just struggling to get my head (no pun intended) around the “head” in 1 Cor 11:3 meaning “source” or “foundation” rather than “authority”. Can someone please try and re-explain the interpretation to me?

Cheryl @ 62 said:
“So if the literal “head” in Hebrew can mean source, there is no reason why Paul could not have used the Greek equivalent of the Hebrew rosh which is kephale to mean the source, beginning or capstone. After all if Jesus is the capstone of the church, is not the husband the capstone of the wife? It is the beginning stone where everything else is built upon. It is the foundation, not the ruler.”

I agree through confirmation from other Scriptures that Jesus Christ is the source, beginning, foundation or corner stone of the Church ( Isa 28:16; Eph 2:20 & 1 Pet 2:6 for examples).

But how is the husband the corner stone of the wife? How is he her foundation and how is she built upon the husband? Are you relating this to the woman being made from the man at creation?

Cheryl @ 63
“Let’s see if you measure up to your own advice. Can you admit that the Hebrew equivalent of kephale, the Hebrew word rosh, can mean source or beginning?”

Also, if “head” in this verse does equate to source, beginning, or corner stone, then how does that relate to “and the head of Christ is God”? I don’t know of any verses in Scripture that show that God was Christ’s foundation? Or that God is the corner stone of Christ? (I’m not saying there aren’t any, but just that I do not know of any), however there are other verses which seem to imply Christ’s submission to God’s will, authority, or headship?

John 5:30 I can of mine own self do nothing: as I hear, I judge: and my judgment is just; because I seek not mine own will, but the will of the Father which hath sent me.

Luke 22:42 Saying, Father, if thou be willing, remove this cup from me: nevertheless not my will, but thine, be done.

Mar 13:32 But of that day and [that] hour knoweth no man, no, not the angels which are in heaven, neither the Son, but the Father.

MY head is spinning! lol