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Originally posted by Honeykiss1974
Thanks CT4 for digging this up. I don't think I've seen this thread before myself.
But SummerChild, I did want to answer your question from the other thread, so ere is the Cliffnote version  since much of the detail is already presented here.
The wife should "submit" unto the husband. Is that a bad thing? No, because God commands the husband to love and treat his wife just as Christ loves and treats the church (us).
If the husband has the "heart of Christ" he would do NOTHING intentionlly to his wife that would cause her harm, pain, heartache, or strife (just as Christ does nothing to INTENTIONALLY bring us harm or to see us hurt). The husband would love his wife unconditionally (just as Christ loves us unconditionally).
This is why God stresses that we (husband and wife) should be "equally yoked".
I hope this helps...
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Thanks for the reply HK and I've seen this reasoning before.
Here's the reason that it doesn't make sense to me: EVEN IF your husband is going to treat you like fine wine (or presumably better according to this verse) why does that it make it reasonable that you should want to SUBMIT to him?
For instance, you and I are both equals, yet, even if you treated me perfectly, I would still not want to submit to you. Just b/c it is submission. It implies inferiority to me. That's the problem that I have with the submission issue. I just don't think that I'm inferior to a man.
SC