Comments on: Complimentarianism http://www.sixsteps.org/2006/02/25/complimentarianism/ Usually life’s greatest gifts come wrapped in adversity Tue, 06 Jan 2009 20:25:27 +0000 hourly 1 By: Wilson Parrish http://www.sixsteps.org/2006/02/25/complimentarianism/comment-page-1/#comment-1877 Wilson Parrish Wed, 14 Nov 2007 03:09:30 +0000 http://www.sixsteps.org/?p=75#comment-1877 I happen to think Paul's characteristic brilliance is shining through in Ephesians. To wit. When it comes to instructions to women, he offers the standard party line--echoes, what many Greco-Roman moralists have said, "wives, submit." When it comes to men, he absolutely departs the standard party line. If I remember correctly, this is the ONLY place in all extant Greco-Roman literature where any teacher instructs men to love their wives. And not only that. He goes so far as to suggest that their love mirror the love Christ had for the church, which resulted in Christ willingly and fully submitting to the church. As Winnie the Pooh might say, "Curiouser and curiouser.... " I happen to think Paul’s characteristic brilliance is shining through in Ephesians. To wit.

When it comes to instructions to women, he offers the standard party line–echoes, what many Greco-Roman moralists have said, “wives, submit.”

When it comes to men, he absolutely departs the standard party line. If I remember correctly, this is the ONLY place in all extant Greco-Roman literature where any teacher instructs men to love their wives. And not only that. He goes so far as to suggest that their love mirror the love Christ had for the church, which resulted in Christ willingly and fully submitting to the church.

As Winnie the Pooh might say, “Curiouser and curiouser…. “

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