mattskramer
Senior Member
Pretty plain and simple. The wife is to submit like the church submits to Chris. Everything in Christianity is founded on love, not force.
That section, in context, says nothing about doing it due to love or force.
It gives no disclaimer concerning circumstances in which that wife does not feel love. She is still to obey.
I find it interesting that it does not give instruction concerning whether or not the husband is to obey the wife. The husband is head of the wife. They are not equals.
Anyway, obedience is to be done.
You just changed words. It does not say "to obey". It says "to submit". Submitting in marriage is not obeying. Submitting is willing. Obeying is by command. Maybe that's why you're confused.
I know what submit means:
to yield to governance or authority;
to yield oneself to the authority or will of another;
surrender;
to permit oneself to be subjected to something;
to defer to or consent to abide by the opinion or authority of another
Why doesn't the Bible tell husbands to submit to wives?
Don't you see the double standard?