Fighting Evil or Doing Good?

This is part of a series on partriarchy, headship, and submission. See this index. The previous article “Lying to Combat Lying” discussed what constitutes lying and concluded that it not legitimate to lie in order to fight lying. In this article we will discuss how God wants us to respond …

Lying to Combat Lying

In “God STILL Has Eyewitnesses To the Bible” (children please do not click the link), GunnerQ took issue with my recent post “Patriarchal Forgery?” and by implication raised the age old question about what constitutes a lie.  There he used some disrespectful language and accused me of being a liar …

The Original Source Material

This is part of a series on partriarchy, headship, and submission. See this index. Over at Sigma Frame is a pseudonymous comment by “thedeti”:[1] Once again, we need to return to the original source material. Eph. 5:22-24 (NIV) 22 Wives, submit yourselves to your own husbands as you do to …

Divine Command Theory

This post is a follow-up to the series on partriarchy, headship, and submission. See this index. In “The Context of Genesis 3:16” we discussed the evidence of headship in Ephesians 5 and 1 Peter by examining the claims of thedeti. Rebuttal After writing that post, thedeti replied with the following …

The Context of Genesis 3:16

This is part of a series on partriarchy, headship, and submission. See this index. Let’s continue where “An Analysis of Genesis 3:16” left off, this time discussing the comments of prolific commentor, thedeti. His comments are illustrative of some common arguments that I’ve seen. Intermingled Context Thedeti begins his exegesis …

An Analysis of Genesis 3:16

This is part of a series on partriarchy, headship, and submission. See this index. In “The Tennant Authority Structure“, Lexet and Jack discuss the position of Dominic Bnonn Tennant and his commentors with respect to Genesis 3:16. This is a topic that I mentioned in a citation only a few days …

Patriarchal Forgery?

This is part of a series on partriarchy, headship, and submission. See this index. Note: this version of the essay was updated based on feedback received. A Question A while back, while was I was debating “Headship: Authority or Preeminence?” at the Sigma Frame blog, a couple readers were discussing …

Why I Do What I Do

Under my post on the “Traditions of Men“, Scott came by to make a very important point: When I think about non-Christians who may be inclined toward a life of faith, it occurs to me that they must entirely turned off by the amount of mental energy it takes to …

Traditions of Men

Tradition The last post concluded with a note that what plagues many doctrines is their incorporation of  arbitrary extra-biblical information. Whether it be Headship, Complementarianism, Egalitarianism, Roman Catholicism, or Feudal Christianity (of Radix Fidem), all go beyond the words of scripture to incorporate the traditions of men that the proponents …

Headship: An Evidence Summary

This is part of a series on partriarchy, headship, and submission. See this index. I have written extensively on topics related to patriarchal headship and submission. Given the sheer volume of writings on the topic, it is necessary to condense the findings into an easier-to-access format for future reference. One …