Cheryl Schatz

NN,
The problem as I see it, is that you are continuing to look on the husband as a “governing authority” when 1 Cor. 7 shows that his authority is not that of “governing” but an equal authority with his wife.

In Hebrew 13:10 the authority is to the complete and full right, power and authority to do an action. If you say that the ones who have the authority to eat from the altar (those who are in Christ) are still under the authority of God, I have no problem with that since God is the Sovereign of all. Anyplace and anytime God is Sovereign. But you cannot place a sovereignty on the man and say that the woman’s authority over his body doesn’t negate his sovereignty. His sovereignty over her as her ruler and king and lord doesn’t exist.

You are using faulty examples and part of the problem, in my humble opinion, is that you fail to identify your point of view. Also a secular example cannot identify a sovereignty of the husband nor can God’s authority over us identify a sovereignty of the husband. The fact is that full sovereignty means that one has full rights and the ability to overrule anyone and anything. 1 Cor. 7 disproves at the very least the full sovereignty of the man and since no authority is given the husband except for 1 Cor. 7 and the man and woman were given equal rulership in the beginning, the burden of proof identifying full sovereignty of the man would be on the shoulders of those who claim it. Are you one who claims it? I don’t know.