Corrie

Hi Donna,

“I would encourage people to read what is said at the CBMW, and try to understand where they are coming from as far as the eternal subordination of the Son is concerned. It is an appeal to greater understanding.”

When the egalitarians say appeal to “greater understanding” of the scriptures they are eviscerated by the Bayly Bros, et al. They mock and scoff and scorn such statements citing that an assertion of greater understanding is just not possible.

But, here you are appealing to the “greater understanding” argument?

After reading Grudem’s statement in his Systematic Theology book, no less (!!!!!!!!!!!), that God is a subordinate/inferior to man when He is an “ezer” to man, I don’t think I can trust where this “greater understanding” is coming from or what fuels it. It looks to me like desperation. The comps/pats are now changing scripture and the historic understanding of the Godhead in order to shore up their need to be in control and to have primacy. That doesn’t look good at all.

Is it your argument that people who do not agree with CBMW’s statements on the eternal subordination of Christ to be without understanding? That CBMW and those agree with this new wind of doctrine are those who a greater understanding of God?

I beg to differ.

I can’t quite wrap my mind around the whole concept because the Trinity is a mystery but since Christ and God cannot go against their perfectly unified will as God, their will is one. Christ is God. He is “I Am”. Through Christ the world was made. He and the Father are one.

Not so for puny humans. A man’s will is not God’s will nor are two sinful human beings going to be perfectly in accord with one another at all times. And at times we are to resist the will of man in order to remain in the will of God. To compare a husband to God and the woman to Christ is not greater understanding. It is poor understanding and poor hermeneutics. Why do what the Bible does not? Are not the instructions left for husbands and wives enough? Why must we elevate where God has not? This to me is the sin of pride and not seeing one’s self as they really are.