Corrie

I think I have read that the Holy Spirit is likened to the children in the marital relationship. How bizarre is that? God the Father and God the Son having a baby together and calling it God the Holy Spirit? It boggles my mind.

The fact remains that husbands are NEVER likened to God. They are told to be like Christ in their sacrificial love for their wives. Period. They are not told to be like Christ in His resurrection or in His glorious return. They are told to be like Him in His love. Period. Husbands are NOT Christ to their wife nor do they represent Christ to their wives. They are not mediators, prophets, priests or kings. The Bible tells us we are ALL a royal priesthood, husbands are never singled out as priests/mediators for their wife.

Elsewhere, Christ set the example of leadership when he girded a towel about His waist and washed the feet of His disciples. That was the lowliest of jobs that a slave could do. A Jewish slave would NEVER wash feet because that was reserved for the lowliest of slaves. So, Christ was saying that we are not to be like the Gentiles who lord their authority over others but we are to be as the lowliest slave who does the most lowliest jobs for OTHERS. This hardly leaves room one person in a relationship to be lording anything over the other.

I do not believe that Christ is eternally subordinate to the Father. He was temporally subordinate in His incarnate state in order to do the work He came to do. Remember, Christ was crucified from the foundation of the World. Before Adam and Eve were created, Christ’s death, burial and resurrection were already planned. Christ is the Word who became flesh. All things were made through the Word/Christ. Christ is Creator. Christ is God. How can God be subordinate to God?
Christ came to set an example for all of us to follow.

I don’t know about you all and I am certainly NOT a Bible scholar nor any other type of scholar, just a lowly housewife who is self-taught and who has lived a LOT of life, but it is hard to wrap my mind totally around the implications of the trinity. I know scholarship is really important to people, which is ironic because they are the same people who claim that girls don’t need to go to college to be as smart and respected as college-educated daughters! If you doubt what I am saying, go and read the thread over at Thatmom that Lin linked to in her post and see the very thing I am saying. The patriarchal movement is often schizophrenic in its behavior. Either that or they have a dissociative disorder that prevents them from seeing how inconsistent they really are.

One thing that I do know is that Christ is God in the flesh. Through Christ all things were made. God the Father and God the Son are ALWAYS and EVER in agreement. They are ONE and it would be impossible for one to go against the other or even have a thought that would be different from the other.

Not true when it comes to two sinful, imperfect, fallible human beings. Husbands are not God. Wives are not Christ. And patriarchalists really must stop taking analogies to this length because it borders, imho, on idolatry. Who would have the hutzpah to compare themselves to God?