Cheryl Schatz

@205 Holly,
You said:

it seems that a simple “husband submit to your wives as unto the Lord” would have saved a lot of women (and men because of their greater burden of “responsibility” than was necessary) a lot of pain and suffering over the years.

Are you sure? It seems to me that with the direct command for husbands to give up themselves for their wives still allowed men to hold to their male tradition, if the Bible would have directly said what you quoted above, the additional command would have been bypassed in the same way. Male privilege does not get laid at the feet of Jesus easily. Men need to be willing to have a heart change that goes against their fleshly desires and against the culture and against tradition. That is no small feat.