Men who disrespectfully boss their wives as though they are children are not Spiritually led, but devilish. Men are to treat their wives as cherished vessels as they support them in the calling God gave them, which is the managing of the home.
It is not Biblical for men to dictate to their wives how they are to run the household, that was a job given to them by God. It was not given to the man.
Every woman will stand before God judged all by herself. She will never be able to use the excuse that her husband told her to sin.
Blaming the husband before God is the same thing Adam and Eve did in the garden when they each blamed each other and the snake.
The false belief today that a woman is under her husband comes from the ungodly teachings in the past when pagan men dominated and abused women.
Christ never forces anyone to do anything. He gives them a choice. Each person is to choose their own path, hopefully, it is a godly one that honors the Word of God.
The man supports and protects the woman as her leader and the woman supports and protects the man as his counselor. No one is over another, they are equal with different roles.
The whole idea of hierarchy came from ungodly sources not from the Bible. When everyone does as God has told them to do in the Word of God, no one will be demeaned or diminished by anyone else. Each will seek to enhance and support the other.
No one is served more than the other, we are all served and we all serve. This is the nature of Christianity and is very different from what humanity teaches.
There is no need for hierarchy when the Holy Spirit lives in every born-again believer, because He is the leader of all of us all the time.
No one will be able to say this is "feminism" because feminism seeks to place women above men and to diminish men. In God's economy no one seeks to dominate or coerce another, each one makes their choice as they love one another.
Galatians 5:16-18
"I say then: Walk in the Spirit, and you shall not fulfill the lust of the flesh. For the flesh lusts against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh; and these are contrary to one another so that you do not do the things that you wish. But if you are led by the Spirit, you are not under the law."
When we love someone we want to help, serve, and enhance their walk and calling. It is only those who are narcissists who seek to dominate and control others for their own self-aggrandizement.
Sadly it is human nature to disrespect others to make them do what we think they should do, this is a sin and it is also a lack of faith in Christ. We must tell the truth to others and leave the final result to God. We do not own anyone else, they are not animals to be trained and forced by us. We are merely the messengers of truth and accountable to God for our own lives.
May we walk in love as we seek God for our perspective roles as given in the Scriptures!!!
If we obey God we will live like this:
Corinthians 13:4-8
"4 Love is patient, love is kind, it is not jealous; love does not brag, it is not arrogant.
5 It does not act disgracefully, it does not seek its own benefit; it is not provoked, does not keep an account of a wrong suffered,
6 it does not rejoice in unrighteousness, but rejoices with the truth; 7 it keeps every confidence, it believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things."
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