Thursday, January 31, 2008

Where Egalitarianism arrives

Missionary Donna Carlaw wrote this in a post on the Yahoo Theology List:
When Christ is reduced to a relationship of mutual submission with
His church, then we are talking about a different Christ, a false
Christ, a Christ that is not the One of the Bible.

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Donna C, in those few words you have so succinctly shown the error of evangelical feminism.

Every Christian must believe that human marriage is a picture of the relationship of the true marriage of Christ and the church.

Yet if we take the mutual submission view, this is where it must lead.
Rather, Ephesians 5:21-33 shows us how we are to submit, and to whom it is appropriate for Christians to submit.

Of course, Ephesians 5 also shows what a humble, gentle leader a husband must be, if he is to even remotely reflect Christ.