Over at Sigma Frame, Jack is concerned about violations to his comment policy. Jack had questioned a man’s claim to be a Christian, in clear violation of his own comment policy. His comment was precipitated by the article which claimed that a husband could command his wife to abort—murder—their child: …
This is a quick response to this comment. The fundamental axiom of Roman Catholicism—which originated in the late 4th century—is: The recent explicates the older[1] This axiom is doing a lot of heavy lifting in the comment above. Roman Catholicism and Orthodoxy look to themselves (the recent) to explain what …
This is part of a series on patriarchy, headship, authority, and submission. See this index. This series on sanctification in marriage began its life in response to an ongoing topical discussion of marital sanctification at the Sigma Frame blog. In my previous essay, I noted how marital sanctification was not …
This is part of a series on patriarchy, headship, authority, and submission. See this index. This series on sanctification in marriage began its life in response to an ongoing topical discussion of marital sanctification at the Sigma Frame blog. Recently, after posting “16 Bible Passages for Teaching Wives and Daughters …
The last time I wrote about GunnerQ, in “Lying to Combat Lying“, was when he falsely accused me of lying and misrepresented the biblical teaching on telling lies. In that post I laid out how being wrong is not lying, but requires intent. Remarkably, Gunner agrees with me that lying …
I have read the posts at Sigma Frame for a number of years now, participating in a number of discussions. My intuition (and feedback from the beloved “professorGBFMtm”) leads me to believe that Sigma Frame is hovering at an inflection point. The Suspicion One of the things that has set …
This is part of a series on patriarchy, headship, and submission. See this index. There is a word in the New Testament that refers to the master, ruler, or owner of the house, household, or land: oikodespotés (a noun) and oikodespoteó (a verb). It is a compound word made up of oikos …
This is part of a series on patriarchy, headship, and submission. See this index. The prophets of modern red-pill wisdom like to think that it has its roots in ancient tradition. I frequently run into comments that assert that what I believe is a modern corruption of the plain, ancient …
This is part of a series on patriarchy, headship, and submission. See this index. Over at Sigma Frame, Jack and Red Pill Apostle have coauthored a piece on the biblical male-female marital roles by citing 16 different passages. In the introduction, they set up Headship Submission and mock the notion …