Truthseeker

Michael Terran,  your insight about ‘in the Lord’ is very interesting because one of the objections raised per the whole headship section has to do with whom Paul is speaking to or about in this section.  I maintain that when he speaks of Christ being the head of every man, the ‘every man’ here refers to all men-saved and unsaved.  Therefore, leadership can’t apply because non-believers don’t have Christ as their ‘leader/head’.   The comp view I am dealing with thinks that because Paul is addressing this letter to believers, that the ‘every man’ refers to all believing men.  Your point about the later mention of ‘in the Lord’ seems to refute the view that ‘all men’ refers to Christian and non-Christian.  Am I seeing this right?

Pinklight, I agree.  When I point out that headship as defined/described per Christ and the church with regard to husband and wife only seems to say that He loves her and gave himself up for her, and that leadership has to be read into this, it doesn’t seem to be clear to my comp.  I agree that leadership really does have to be ‘read into’ the passage.  This seems to be another case of trying to nail jello to the wall to make it clear that definition is being ‘read into the passage.’  I don’t know why other than it may simply testify of my own inadequacy as an explainer.  Yet, I know that in the final analysis, my job is to proclaim the truth as best as I can and only the Holy Spirit can ‘convict’.  I do pray for increased skill in proclaiming, though!