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Paidiske
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Baptists (and others)-- Wives submit to husbands? Wives and husbands equal partners?
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You don't always know ahead of time how someone will behave a month, a year, ten years, forty years after marriage. (After 18 years of...
May 21, 2024
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Well, the main reason I ever see anyone raise the idea of men as "protectors," it's always coupled with the idea of different gender...
May 21, 2024
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But, in your view, it is not abuse if he orders her to do twenty things she would not choose to do, as long as they are not inherently...
May 21, 2024
Paidiske
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To control another person, to coerce them into doing something they would not freely choose, or to prevent them from doing something...
May 21, 2024
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It's insane that that should be a controversial statement.
May 21, 2024
Paidiske
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I would argue that it is broadly about church unity, and holding together to sound teaching (rather than the "strange teachings" of...
May 21, 2024
Paidiske
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I think many people read the above text as giving church leaders licence to control members of their congregation. And we see that in...
May 21, 2024
Paidiske
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Irrelevant. It is still a problem to make this into a dynamic of one-sided submission and control. Again, this is not about...
May 21, 2024
Paidiske
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Baptists (and others)-- Wives submit to husbands? Wives and husbands equal partners?
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What Sarah meant, and what Peter thought or suggested that Sarah meant, might be two very different things. At the end of the day...
May 20, 2024
Paidiske
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Baptists (and others)-- Wives submit to husbands? Wives and husbands equal partners?
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If it's one-sided, they're two sides of the same coin. If she must submit, then by default, he is controlling. Mutual submission is a...
May 20, 2024
Paidiske
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Baptists (and others)-- Wives submit to husbands? Wives and husbands equal partners?
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It's a shame I don't read Hebrew, because the reason I didn't find it is that the translation I normally use simply says "my husband" in...
May 20, 2024
Paidiske
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Baptists (and others)-- Wives submit to husbands? Wives and husbands equal partners?
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I see these two options as incompatible. Submission/control is not loving. It is abusive. It's interesting, because I went looking...
May 20, 2024
Paidiske
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Baptists (and others)-- Wives submit to husbands? Wives and husbands equal partners?
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And put it in a broader context where this is not meant to be a relationship where he controls, and she obeys. But rather one of mutual...
May 20, 2024
Paidiske
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Baptists (and others)-- Wives submit to husbands? Wives and husbands equal partners?
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You are only looking at one verse, and not the whole Scriptural witness. I would argue that it does. A husband is not God; not...
May 20, 2024
Paidiske
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But the point is that this is not a helpful text when we approach questions of abuse in marriage today. Encouraging women to stay and...
May 20, 2024
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