Re: OT - RELIGION: C.S. on the reason for the husband's headship...

[Guest guest]

Suze,

I'm in a rush now and will try to reply more fully later, but my immediate

comment would be that is using an entirely pragmatic/political perspective

rather than a spiritual perspective.

If the command were isolated in a vaccum, there would certainly be an obvious

power differential. When it is followed with the other commands, the power

differential disappears when the husband and wife submit their will to God's,

and properly " allign " their own selves in the way they allign their family, so

that their flesh is subject to, but not inferior to, their soul, and their

soul likewise subject to their spirit, which is the Spirit of God.

I don't see a point in analyzing the pragmatic/political implications of the

command apart from this, because it is the wife who is commanded to submit,

not the husband who is commanded to demand submission; thus there is no

enforcement mechanism, but the submission is left to the free will of the wife,

just

like God has made an explicit point to allow free will to humanity to submit to

God.

Chris