Cheryl Schatz

TaWanda,

Jesus in His Deity is completely equal with the Father and there is no authority of one person over another in the Trinity. As man He submitted to the Father as an example of the submission that we are to give the Father. But the Bible never once says that the Father took authority of Christ nor that the husband is to take authority over the wife.

Submission is a Christ-like attitude that we are all to have one to another. It is a loving attitude that we willing give, not of compulsion that is required when a person take authority over another, but a submission out of love, just as Jesus submitted to the Father out of love.

The error comes when one adds the teaching about authority as some have stated that the Son does not have equal authority in the Trinity to the extent that these teachers teaching eternal subordination of the Son teach that Jesus does not have equal worship with the Father and Jesus is not to be prayed to as they teach only the Father receives prayer. This degrades Jesus and makes Him as less than equal in the Trinity.

I hope this helps.