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I will give you a general one regarding the Church and a specific one regarding marriage.

The letters to the churches in Revelation are authoritative and corrective. I think we would agree. Comps take those letters as evidence that Christ exercises authority and gives correction to the church apart from His authority in the world. Now, here is the tricky part. Comps make a kind of connection. They view males as the Christ counterpart and females as the church counterpart in the Christ/Church relationship. Therefore, they see men in the church as being designated to fulfill the authority/correction role in the local body. I know this connection is fuzzy. I am not sure how to make clear to THEM that it is fuzzy. At any rate, they use Christ’s exercise of authority over the church to justify male exercise of authority within the church. I’m sure there are otehrs here who have run into similar justifications.

In marriage, they view every act of Christ in relation to the church (or psuedo church even) as an action related to husband wife relations. So, when Jesus cleared out the temple, they interpret that as justification of husbandly “righteous anger” and even domestic discipline toward the wife. When they see Jesus rebuking the disciples, they interpret that as justification to rebuke their wives. When they see Jesus correcting bad behavior and doctrine within the various chruches in Revelation, they interpret that as justification to scrutinize, correct, and even punish their wives. They view all of this as righteous “love” because this is supposedly how Christ “loved” the Church.