Mark

““He knows our frame; He remembers that we are dust” (Ps. 103:14). The disparity between us and God IS impossible really to imagine. Why should we think that the relationship within the Godhead would be like any of our relationships? All analogies fail, because the disparity here is between what is Infinite and we finite and fallen. We are merely seeing “through a glass darkly” the Perfect and the pre-fall.”

C,mon Kay! I agree that God and indeed the Trinity is beyond us-no doubt. But i have heard this argument all the time about ‘human analogies’. The question needs to be asked, does God use them himself to help us understand Him better. Of course he does- Ezekial 16 is a classic example. If God has given us human analogies to help us, which he has, let’s use them to better understand Him and his word.

Frank,

Thanks again for your insightful thoughts. I’m not sure what you mean by all scholars apart from Grudem and Co, but i have found very few, non egalitarian scholars who think that ‘source’ is the common meaning. I think that ‘beginning’ or pre-eminance are probably more common than ‘source’. I’m sure we all agree that there are many meanings for ‘kephale’. I would never suggest that ‘leader’ is the primary meaning, nor would i suggest it would be ‘source’.
Regarding your interpretation of ‘source’ in the rest of the NT, i would have to disagree. “Authority’ would fit just as simply as ‘source’, but anyway i don’t want to get to bogged down in this and not comment to everyone else who i have missed.