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• Eph 5:22 . .Wives, submit to your husbands as to The Lord.
"as to the Lord" probably means that women ought to revere their husbands
with the same degree of courtesy, civility, and respect that they would give
Christ were he their spouse.
The Greek word for "submit" in this verse is the very same for submit in Eph
5:21, and never means that wives take orders from their husbands as if
marriage were a totalitarian arrangement.
What we're talking about here is deference rather than obedience. An
attitude of deference is mandatory for Christians on both sides of the gender
aisle-- both men and women.
Deference is agreeable, approachable, tactful, and diplomatic. Deference
isn't confrontational, demanding, assertive, militant, dominating, nor always
clamoring "I am woman! Hear me roar!"
In a nutshell: deference is just the opposite of rivaly. Christian women
striving for equality with men have not yet learned with it means to
submit to a husband as they would to Christ.
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