Mutual Submission, Part 7

This is part of a series on patriarchy, headship, and submission. See this index. After I wrote Part 6, Surfdumb asked the following pertinent question: I’m not an important person. I have no formal theological education and I’m not fluent in Koine Greek. I’m a self-taught nobody. Educated, credentialed scholars …

Mutual Submission, Part 6

This is part of a series on patriarchy, headship, and submission. See this index. There are two primary, but related, issues at the root of the biblical grammatical argument on submission. The first issue is whether or not the Greek middle voice is equivalent to the English active voice. The second issue is whether or not …

Mutual Submission, Part 5

This is part of a series on patriarchy, headship, and submission. See this index. There are two primary, but related, issues at the root of the biblical grammatical argument on submission. The first issue is whether or not the Greek middle voice is equivalent to the English active voice. The second issue is whether …

Mutual Submission, Part 4

This is part of a series on patriarchy, headship, and submission. See this index. Here is a very important comment (repeated in full below) on the topic of gender equality, which is related to the discussion of mutual submission. It is very important because, if what the comment says is correct, …

Mutual Submission, Part 3

This is part of a series on patriarchy, headship, and submission. See this index. In Part 1 of the series, I centered in on the phrase hypotassomenoi allēlois (“be submitting yourselves to one another”) in Ephesians 5:21. I shared the following footnote: This explanation may be confusing, so I’m going to boil …

Mutual Submission, Part 2

This is part of a series on patriarchy, headship, and submission. See this index. NOTE: For a much longer version of this post, see Part 1. There is a certain type of critic who thinks that long-form writing—what I do on this blog—is not legitimate. It is too long to …

Mutual Submission, Part 1

This is part of a series on patriarchy, headship, and submission. See this index. NOTE: For a much shorter version of this post, see part 2. In “Everyone’s a Genius,” I engaged in a metaphysicial discussion of Full Metal Patriarch’s epistemology that he demonstrated in his article “A Dalrock Update.” Commenter …

Everyone’s a Genius

On the internet—and perhaps in meatspace too—everyone is a genius. Consider this non-Christian’s claim (with almost a million views): Had this one taken about 15 seconds to Google check his own claim, he might have found the “Five Suns” creation myth of the Aztecs: Bloodthirsty? Brutal? It turns out that …

Justification By Faith, Part 7

Living vs Dead Consider this quotation: Does this contradict Galatians 2:16? Of course not. James 2:14-26 is summarized in the tautology: if you don’t live your faith, your faith is not living, but dead The difference between living and dead faith is the nature of that faith, not the deeds. …