Greg Anderson

Michael, Good post brother. Here’s the thing in a nutshell. Complementarians now know that unless they can tie Paul’s supposed prohibitions against all women teaching and holding positions of leadership in the churches to a linear hierarchy established at creation and one present in the Trinity, their whole thesis of non-negotiable gender-roles will fail just as any other non-essential belief system in the church universal. If they can tie the universal subordination of women to what they see as a linear hierarchy in the Trinity, they will have assigned an implied creedal weight to it and made it an essential doctrine. Anybody who doesn’t buy into it or who dissents from it in speech or in print will be considered non-Christian, infidel, heretic and unsaved.