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I did a complete breakdown of the NT uses of kephale in comments 87 and 89 in the post Do the genders have different functions? and posed a series of questions and challenges to Mark which went unanswered (understandably so with the multi-topic whirlwind in these several posts that he has been responding to). In that breakdown, I demonstrated that kephale is never used to show authority of the head over the body in Pauline metaphore. Unless Mark can twist some new meaning from the context or raw text that is not obvious, the “case is closed” on what Paul means, (or more accurately, what he doesn’t mean), when he uses kephale, which is all that matters in this discussion. I will paraphrase Tom Sawyer again: “Mark, your sayin’ so doesn’t make it so”. I have proven that kephale does not mean authority of head over the body in Paul’s usage. You have only stated that it does mean authority. Time to prove it.