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To Lin in #23 & 24, and Kay in #27 ,

I never made any statements even remotely akin to what you state my logic to be. I simply pointed out that there are passages of Scripture in which Christ is likened to the (human) husband of a wife – I made no comment as to what exactly this meant.

I also never said that men were “exempt” from the general instruction on submission. Merely that Paul gave distinct and inequivalent instructions to the husbands and to the wives in which the wives are explicitly told to “submit” (hupotasso) and husbands are not told this but rather an instructed to “love” (agapao). What the distinction is and why Paul made it I didn’t say, I merely pointed out that he did make this distinction.