Waneta Dawn

“The idea of being God to the wife is completely backwards, and that is scary!!”

I agree, it is scary. It has taken me years to acknowledge just how scary–that it is so scary I shouldn’t trust these folks. Right now, I won’t even give money to “Christian” organizations who teach compism. If they can take a scripture and teach that it means the opposite of what it says, what else do they teach that is the opposite of scripture? And what do they teach that misses the narrow way and walks in the ditch instead–while they claim it is the genuine path to God? It took me 15-20 years to finally see what was wrong with their teaching on marriage, and now I am beginning to see other teaching, like about the relationship between God the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit that are also false, and are used to shore up their anti-biblical marriage doctrine.

“I can honestly say that I really didn’t grasp the fact that this issue ran so deep so thank you both for helping me out here. I’m definately interested to see where the rest of this discussion goes and to learn a bit more about what I once considered to be something of a “side-issue”.”

Dogmadekate, many people think this is a side issue and just nit picking on the egalitarian’s part. But it isn’t a side issue at all. To say that Jesus must subject himself to the Father throughout eternity, and that wives must have the same subjection/obedience to their husbands ends up effecting nearly every aspect of the life of every Christian. We are so interconnected. Since our society is so male-led, it effects nearly everything without our being aware of it. For example, who decided that houses should be square/rectangular and “square with the world?” If houses were first built by women, would we have different houses today? Who decided that taking advantage of others is power? Why didn’t the concept of serving others (like they did in Tibet, as shown in the movie “7 years in Tibet”) become the societal norm? Both of these touch all of our lives every day, yet we are mostly not aware of them. How many more doctrinal details effect our lives daily because of the pro-male power structure they teach, yet we are (or I am) unaware of them?