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Thank you Cheryl for your replies to my questions.

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I appreciate the picture you have painted about a woman “under authority” never being allowed to mature, or grow up, as per Christ’s intention for the Christian’s life. I’ve never thought of it like that but it makes perfect sense.

I’m sorry if my questions seem obvious and repetitive but I just have to ask until I can get my head around some of the answers. I realise that in Eph 5 all Christians are taught to be in submission to one another which would include a husband and wife relationship, but I still wonder how come it is that there are at least two places where a wife is directly told to be in submission, or obedience, to her husband, while there is never the same clear-cut directive for a husband to be in submission to, or obedient to, his wife?

It would seem to me that the natural inclination of man “to rule over” his wife since the fall would mean that men in general would be the ones that need the clear cut directive to be in submission to his wife rather than the other way around. Why do you think that this is not the case?

Also, why do you think the use of the word “authentein” is used exclusively in this husband/wife relationship concerning false teaching and not used in other portions of Scripture where false teaching is also being addressed? Surely a false teacher in any situation would be practicing spiritual “authentein” over their listeners and would require the same sinister term for this type of authority that Paul used in 1 Tim 2.