Thursday, October 9, 2014

Whose Boss?

Many take one passage of scripture and build a doctrine of marriage that has the man as supreme and the woman subservient. However , the whole of scripture teaches marriage as a partner relationship.  She submits to him; he gives his life up for her (Ephesians 5:22-29).  She desires him physically, and he naturally responds and cleaves to her (Geneses 3:23-4, 4:2).  

Marriage is not a contest for power in which the husband trumps the wife  with his scripture of her submission.  It is a partnership of two human beings each with their own faults submitting to and loving one another  (Genesis 2:24, one flesh, Ephesians 5:28).


Dominion or domination in a marriage is born out of sin.