For the husband is the head of the wife even as Christ is the head of the church, his body, and is himself its Savior.[Ephesians 5:23] So why is it that God has called one-half of all the people in the world to go against their rebellious natures and put themselves under the authority of the other half of the…
Month: March 2007
“Submit” to Your Own Husbands
Now, the question of a dictionary-like definition of submission. We could just look it up in an actual dictionary, but that would just tell us what G. & C. Merriam and Noah Webster think it means, not what God says it means! The word here is hupotasso (plus some funny characters I can’t get to show up). Hupo is a…
“Submit “As to the Lord.”
Sidenote: It has been suggested in a comment that I might define “submission” before I continue. So I’m going to do that in the next two posts. First, in this post, I want to define the depth of submission (how much do we submit?) and in the next post, I’ll be more grammatical about it and look at the meaning…