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“I notice that Piper’s examples are far out–things he thinks no “Christian” husband would do. What he doesn’t realize is that abusers do demand bizarre, weird and harmful acts. But those to whom wife submission is one of the top 10 biblical checkpoints, easily dismiss the fact that they are bizarre and focus instead on the wife’s supposed error.”

It seems to me that Piper is well aware that there are men who demand a type of obeisance that is bizarre. What he is protecting is his right to have the special privileges, the right to control and direct, the right to always have the last say, the right to have to be approached as the king of the house. Equal value and worth is the last thing they want to actually experience personally in the home and church.