Does the NT really teach equality in the marriage “partnership”, or does the OT standard of patriarchy still apply?
Numbers 30 tells us that if a man makes a vow, he is held to that vow and must perform it.
But if his wife or daughter that lives in his house makes a vow, he has the right and the responsibility to vet that vow and veto it if he sees fit.
Where in the NT does it teach that his wife is equal with him and can now veto his vows? Or that she is equal with him and he no longer has veto authority?
And what about a daughter’s vows, does he still have authority over them?
Another question that I have is why are we given an organizational chart in both 1 Corinthians 11 and Ephesians 5 that the husband is the head of the wife and Yeshuah is the head of the husband if the marriage is to be equal?
And why is the husband instructed to wash his wife with the water of the Word, but not vice versa?
Two things I have seen mistakenly used to support equality.
One is Galatians 3:28 , there is neither male nor female? How so?
Obviously it doesn’t mean that there is no difference, only females can bear children and only males can impregnate them.
It simply means that both have salvation available to them equally. Unlike religions where women do not enter the afterlife without the permission/invitation of a husband.
The other is in Ephesians 5 where we are told to submit ourselves one to another.
Does this mean that we are equal and must obey each other equally? No, in fact that isn’t even possible, if you think about it a little bit.
No, it means to consider each other and work together. Yet the next three verses exhort wives to submit to their husbands (but not to males in general) and be subject to them as the church is subject to Yeshuah.
Completely different commands are given to the husbands as to their duties towards their wives.
The point is that people want to see “equal but different” in the NT, but there are just too many teachings that point in the opposite direction.
Numbers 30 tells us that if a man makes a vow, he is held to that vow and must perform it.
But if his wife or daughter that lives in his house makes a vow, he has the right and the responsibility to vet that vow and veto it if he sees fit.
Where in the NT does it teach that his wife is equal with him and can now veto his vows? Or that she is equal with him and he no longer has veto authority?
And what about a daughter’s vows, does he still have authority over them?
Another question that I have is why are we given an organizational chart in both 1 Corinthians 11 and Ephesians 5 that the husband is the head of the wife and Yeshuah is the head of the husband if the marriage is to be equal?
And why is the husband instructed to wash his wife with the water of the Word, but not vice versa?
Two things I have seen mistakenly used to support equality.
One is Galatians 3:28 , there is neither male nor female? How so?
Obviously it doesn’t mean that there is no difference, only females can bear children and only males can impregnate them.
It simply means that both have salvation available to them equally. Unlike religions where women do not enter the afterlife without the permission/invitation of a husband.
The other is in Ephesians 5 where we are told to submit ourselves one to another.
Does this mean that we are equal and must obey each other equally? No, in fact that isn’t even possible, if you think about it a little bit.
No, it means to consider each other and work together. Yet the next three verses exhort wives to submit to their husbands (but not to males in general) and be subject to them as the church is subject to Yeshuah.
Completely different commands are given to the husbands as to their duties towards their wives.
The point is that people want to see “equal but different” in the NT, but there are just too many teachings that point in the opposite direction.
