Lin

Dave, I have found Jon Zens to be a great resource. He gets it when it comes to the false teaching on human authority in the Body that is everywhere. Seems we have thrown the Holy Priesthood out the window these days! And people are suffering spiritual immaturity for it, too!

Mark, it is really up to the comps to prove Kephale means authority over. Even if it has been translated that way for thousand years. We have found many things to be tradition and not good exegesis such as transubstantiation, slavery, church/state, magistrates, infant baptism, etc.

The question is this: Why wasn’t a clear Greek word for ‘authority over’used? There are several to choose from used in plenty of other passages.

And in that vein, why are we ignoring the head/body metaphors all through the NT when we look at kephale?