Craig

Just thinking about an inconsistency I see in the comp position and wondering how to express it best. Any thoughts to correct or improve it are welcome.
In the culture of the day a servant/slave had no authority and was under the authority of his master. If the word “slave” was used, people thought of one under authority.
Yet Comps can usually accept that one can serve someone else without implying being under the authority of the one being served.
If someone is said to be a servant of someone else in the bible, or commanded to serve someone else in the bible, or we are commanded to serve one other Gal 5:13 no thought of being under authority comes to mind. We may think of it as voluntarily giving of ourselves to meet the needs of others. We think of this as something all Christians should do- male or female.
Similarly, comps argue that in the culture of the day if someone submits to someone else, then it means that this person is under the authority of the one being submitted to.
Why is “submission” treated differently to “service”?
Why is it that if one submits to someone else, it implies being under the authority of the one being submitted to?
Why is it that if someone is said to submit to someone else in the bible, or commanded to submit to someone else in the bible, or we are commanded to submit to one another Eph 5:21 the thought of being under authority immediately comes to mind. Why does it seem so unthinkable that it could be voluntarily yielding of our own desires to put others first and meet their needs Phil 2:3,4. Why can’t we think of this as something all Christians should do- male or female?
Just hypothetically, what would comps think if after Galatians 5:13, Paul had written
“Wives, “serve” your husbands as you “serve” the Lord. As the church “serves” Christ, so also wives should “serve” their husbands in everything.” Would they limit Gal 5:13 as just those under authority are to serve those in authority over them? Would it mean that husbands did not need to serve their wives? Would it without doubt mean that husbands are in authority over their wives, just as Christ is over the church?