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If we take this literally or physically.
EPHESIANS 5:22
22 Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord.
Who are the literal or physical wives who can submit themselves to their husbands?
By submitting themselves:
Wives should not make their own decision. All come from the husbands.
Wives can't act on their own, the instruction should come from the husbands.
In short: Wives or wife should be a slave of her husband.
Wives, who is willing to become a slaves of their husbands?
I don't think there is because everybody needs freedom in our physical life.
If this is not the literal wives because The Law is Spiritual:
ROMANS 7:14
14 For we know that the law is spiritual: but I am carnal, sold under sin.
Then who are the Spiritual Wives in Ephesians 5:22?
Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord.
Which answer are we going to believe, from a Man (man own intellect) or from God (through his words as stated in John 1:1)?
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Of course what we are going to believe is the revelation from God.
God could explain the meaning of spiritual wives through his WORDS alone.
Here is the Word of God.
In this verse, God is not looking after the gender of human.
Everybody has 1 gender only in the eyes of God.
GALATIANS 3:28-
28 There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither bond nor free, there is neither male nor female: for ye are all one in Christ Jesus.
In this following verse, God said about a couple who are married.
God is married to all.
JEREMIAH 3:14
14 Turn, O backsliding children, saith the Lord; for
I am married unto you: and I will take you one of a city, and two of a family, and I will bring you to Zion:
In this marriage, God stated who is the Spiritual Husband.
ISAIAH 54:5
5 For
thy Maker is thine husband; the Lord of hosts is his name; and thy Redeemer the Holy One of Israel; The God of the whole earth shall he be called.
If God is the Spiritual Husband then all people are the Spiritual Wives of God.
If the people are the spiritual wives.
Is it now appropriate that we submit ourselves to God as our Spiritual Husband?
Since we are talking about the salvation or the Word of God.
All our decisions are coming from God.
All our action on how to get saved must be from God instruction.