Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!usc!cs.utexas.edu!asuvax!ukma!rutgers!aramis.rutgers.edu!athos.rutgers.edu!christian From: hudson@athena.cs.uga.edu (Paul Hudson Jr) Newsgroups: soc.religion.christian Subject: Re: ambitious women may approach the altar now ... Message-ID: Date: 27 May 91 22:16:12 GMT Sender: hedrick@athos.rutgers.edu Organization: University of Georgia, Athens Lines: 31 Approved: christian@aramis.rutgers.edu In article oracle@eleazar.dartmouth.edu (Brian T. Coughlin) writes: > (Ephesians 6:5-9), but I doubt very much if you, sir, would > advocate the return of slavery for the sole purpose of fulfilling > this Scriptural command. ). The question is: is the > issue of "women submitting to men" one of those 1st century edicts > that is no longer applicable in our day and age? I say yes. > The commands for slaves to obey their masters in no way mandates a return to slavery. As a matter of fact, Paul says in I Corinthians 7, that if it is possible for a slave to be free, he should take advantage of it. The command is to slaves. If there are no slaves, then it does not apply to anyone. Especially since we are exhorted to be free if it is possible. But are their wives today? yes. There are. So the command still applies. The command to for the wife to obey the husband is based on God's own spoken words in Genesis. If there were slaves today, then they would have to obey their masters. There are wives today, why should they not obey their husbands. Why did the apostles not revers God's order of authority in families in which both husband and wige are Christians? If this was just to keep from conflicting with society, why was it not only commanded to wives with unbelieving husbands, to win them over? It was given to Christian wives with Christian husbands as well. Let me ask you this? Does the husband have to love his wife as Christ loved the church, or was that only for the time? Paul makes an analogy between the relationship between the husband and wife, and Christia and the church. Does the church not have to obey Christ any more? Link.