truthseeker

gengwall, I can understand your caution in putting forth a statement about head not meaning source. I had to laugh when you pleaded with folk to not freak out. 🙂 I had my spear ready so raising your white flag from miles away was a good thing! 🙂

I can see that you have thought this out, and I am personally grateful you aren’t into hierarchy. What I am puzzled by in the husband is head context is that whatever it is somehow is separate from what women are. Women are never referred to as head so it would seem that somehow, whatever the meaning of head is in the ‘head’ passages referring to men or husbands would have to be their exclusive domain. Just logically speaking. (I had a comp tell me, when backed to a wall that God isn’t logical, so comps sometimes give themselves terrific ‘get out of jams free’ cards.) I am still chewing what you have written.

Our culture has such a strong concept of leadership attached to certain words that I suspect it might even be hard to separate ‘boss’ from ‘team captain.’ I think most people would instantly think of a team captain as a boss or leader rather than as a guardian though I agree with your definition. Guardian makes the most sense, though. Maybe simply sticking to a term like guardian and even gardener (since gardeners nourish, tend to, lovingly care for, etc., without having to be despots. Of course, gardeners eat what they so tenderly care for in the end, so we might not want to carry the analogy too far!)

I do think source makes the most sense in the passage speaking of Christ being the head of every man, man being the head of woman, and God being the head of Christ, however. Thoughts?