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Originally Posted by Evangelical
There just simply isn't any specific instruction in the bible for the man to submit to the woman.
Consider, that only women were asked to wear head coverings (a symbol of submission), never the man. In other words, the bible specifies a symbol of submission for the woman, but never one for the man.
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Bringing up head covering as an example is like grasping at straws. It was a matter of custom of the times. And the whole thing to Ephesus has a context of a pagan cult in which the women are the top and are on display rather than covered. Note that Paul did not give these kinds of commands to all the others.
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Originally Posted by Evangelical
There just simply isn't any specific instruction in the bible for the man to submit to the woman.
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But there is a specific instruction in the Bible for all to submit to one another. Once you exclude anyone from having to submit to anyone for any reason, it is not longer one another, but more like "some of you should submit to others."
As for quoting DTS professors, I have been a member of a Bible church that stands somewhat in opposition so some of the DTS positions on women. A church lead by DTS graduates (among others) who spent 18 months concluding that women were going to be allowed to preach to the general congregation. Without pre-vetting of what would be said.
You are throwing the standard "everyone reads it this way" argument in the face of serious questions as to whether it has been read right in the first place. Just finding yet another significant theologian that learned from theologians that learned from theologians that . . . on and on . . . does not prove your point. You dismiss the suggestion as if to say "no one ever asked that question before, so I won't give it the time of day. Case closed." That is too often how well-entrenched positions become well-entrenched. Not by careful consideration of what has been questioned.