I want to address the feminist misconception, the illogical reasoning that women are equal to men and worse that women in their relationship to men can be and or ought to be superior. Women today think that they should have more influence, power and authority in the world. Who said that they didn't??? Women have forgotten that they have those abilities through their God given role as wives and mothers. It is executed in a way that most women don't understand and that execution is through the role of submission. "Wives, submit to your husbands, as is fitting in the Lord." Col 3:18. "Wives submit to your husbands as to the Lord. For the husband is the head of the wife as Christ is the head of the church, his body, of which he is the Savior. Now as the church submits to Christ, so also wives should submit to their husbands in everything. Ephesians 5:22
What does submission mean or how are we to understand that role? Firstly, let us look at why God orders marriage. Firstly, we can read in Col 3-4 about holy living and rules for Christian households that tell us about God's social order. We can read in Titus 2 on what must be taught to various groups and doing what is good... to be subject to authority. The order of God's authority is man and then woman who is coming under man or after her husband in the chain of God's authority. Why? It is about peace, harmony and family. All of which enable relationships. We are all under God, he is 'our' Father. Because of that we are in relation with Him and with each other. God is the Creator and His order of operation is best. We can look to the Bible for our instruction on His order of operation so that we can have peace, harmony and family which can/will sustain us. In 1 Timothy 3:1-4, we can read "if anyone sets his heart on being an overseer must be reproach; the husband of but one wife, temperate self-controlled, respectable, hospitable, able to teach... not violent but gentle, not a lover of money... he must manage his own family well! The feminist misconception is that women can and should do this job order and their husbands. Their argument is that men don't honor God's order. As a sociologist, I would argue... who are raising boys/young men? What are mothers teaching or not allowing to be taught by their husbands. This is not to say that we women and men as Christians are getting it wrong, God's order. We must always be mindful that we live in a fallen world. God' knows this, and that is why He asks us to follow His order as it is the best order in a fallen world.
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