Well, I don’t really ever concern myself with what the world is up to. Not really seeing much evidence of this ‘patriarchy’ people talk about either. That term has devolved into an agenda-driven media buzzword, it’s intent being to make women resentful of men. It was an effective maneuver of satan.
No offense if anyone does enjoy this stuff, it’s just my preference..whatever Internet influencer people talk about, be they ‘christian’ or not I can’t be concerned with. If they are on the internet grandstanding about how great their ‘traditional’ life is, I have to question how ‘christian’ they really are anyway. Besides, things on the internet aren’t always what they seem, can’t believe everything ya see or hear (John 7:24). Think about it, if they really were hardcore ‘traditional’ they wouldn’t be on social media boasting about how traditional they are.
Never saw any of this stuff in the Bible about sons leading mothers and today I am so grateful to God I didn’t lead my sister LOL. But God did put it on the men to lead spiritually, and within marriage.
“Let the woman learn in silence with all subjection. But I suffer not a woman to teach, nor to usurp authority over the man, but to be in silence. For Adam was first formed, then Eve. And Adam was not deceived, but the woman being deceived was in the transgression.”
—1 Timothy 2:11-14
Also 1 Corinthians 14:34, Colossians 3:18, Ephesians 5:22, Titus 2:5.
Even in mixed marriages where the husband is pagan or atheist, the Christian wife is to be submissive, so that the husband may be won over to God by her godliness. 1 Peter 3:1.
Unfortunately, false teachers crept in and took those verses (and many, many other unrelated verses) out of context, to present their own false ways as spiritual truths. You want to see ‘patriarchy’ as it is defined by the angry socialists, or observe ‘male superiority’, feast your eyes on this ‘sage’ ‘wisdom’:
Martin Luther:
“For woman seems to be a creature somewhat different from man, in that she has dissimilar members, a varied form and a mind weaker than man. Although Eve was a most excellent and beautiful creature, like unto Adam in reference to the image of God, that is with respect to righteousness, wisdom and salvation, yet she was a woman. For as the sun is more glorious than the moon, though the moon is a most glorious body, so woman, though she was a most beautiful work of God, yet she did not equal the glory of the male creature.”
Commentary on Genesis, Chapter 2, Part V, 27b.
That is just too interesting there..how he makes those sun and moon references. It also sounds sort of gay LOL
John Calvin
“On this account, all women are born that they may acknowledge themselves as inferior in consequence to the superiority of the male sex.”
Commentary on 1 Corinthians
“Since, therefore, God did not create two chiefs of equal power, but added to the man an inferior aid, the apostle [Paul] justly reminds us of that order of creation in which the eternal and inviolable appointment of God is strikingly displayed.”
Commentary on Timothy, Titus and Philemon
John Knox
“Woman in her greatest perfection was made to serve and obey man …”
The First Blast of the Trumpet Against the Monstrous Regiment of Women.
“Nature I say, paints [women] further to be weak, frail, impatient, feeble and foolish: and experience has declared them to be inconstant, variable, cruel and lacking the spirit of counsel and regiment [or, leadership].”
The First Blast of the Trumpet Against the Monstrous Regiment of Women
Truth is, if some random dude said things far less harsh he would be referred to as an ‘incel’ or something. But unfortunately these deceivers are uplifted within the religious system. Same for the church fathers (so-called) who also had unkind things to say about women. Such as Tertullian, who referred to women as the devil’s gateway. And this ‘gem’ of ‘wisdom’ from Augustine:
“I don’t see what sort of help woman was created to provide man with, if one excludes procreation. If woman is not given to man for help in bearing children, for what help could she be?”
I don’t recall Christ or any of His disciples talking about women that way. The tone is controlling, degrading. Submission in a biblical marriage is voluntary, and the husband respectful, honoring of the wife. That’s easy to see by reading 1 Peter 3 and Ephesians 5 in their entirety.
So, I am not for this internet influencer trend of ‘traditional’, or the slave-master relationship endorsed by the gurus of the religious system. God’s Word has the answers.
“Blessed are they that keep his testimonies, and that seek him with the whole heart.”
—Psalm 119:2