In God's creation man was ordained to be the head, and woman to be in
subjection to man (1 Cor.
Not exact matches
Chaste be your mind and your body, and both in
subjection, obediently, steadfastly seeking the aim set before them; only through discipline may a
man learn
to be free.
The Catholic Christian Church requires itself a principle of cosmic unity that will bind in one whole all wisdom natural and revealed; a principle which will give
to Christianity a grandeur and a truth that will far outshine its rivals, and give
to man with its deeper truth, the humility, charity and promise ofmercy that comes only of
subjection to God, a
subjection for which the heart of
man cries out.
But a truly social doctrine of the Trinity contains the vision of a community of women and
men in church and society without privilege or
subjection to each other - or
to God.
And yes, a wife should be ins
subjection to her husband, just as a
man should be in
subjection to Christ, and Christ
to God.
If women do teach Scriptures
to men, then they are not in
subjection to God.
If they do attempt
to teach
men, they are not in
subjection to God.
2 The overseer should therefore be irreprehensible, a husband of one wife, moderate in habits, sound in mind, orderly, hospitable, qualified
to teach, 3 not a drunken brawler, not a smiter, but reasonable, not belligerent, not a lover of money, 4 a
man presiding over his own household in a fine manner, having children in
subjection with all seriousness; 5 (if indeed any
man does not know how
to preside over his own household, how will he take care of God's congregation?)
Sin itself is a demonic power, alien
to man in his true nature, which has got entrance into human life and has brought it into
subjection.
26 And God went on
to say: «Let us make
man in our image, according
to our likeness, and let them have in
subjection the fish of the sea and the flying creatures of the heavens and the domestic animals and all the earth and every moving animal that is moving upon the earth.»
These contemporary trends are reflected in the New Testament, partly in vigorous reaction against such beliefs, not by denying the reality
to which they referred, but by claiming that in the gospel
men were delivered from helpless
subjection to that reality.
Marriage for her was
to be a situation of bondage, maternity a period suffering and anguish, and in silence and
subjection, she was
to play the role of a dependent on
man's bounty for all her materials wants, and for all of the facts she might possibly wish... Here could be the Bible position of woman briefly summed up.
The
subjection of women
to men being a universal custom, any departure from it quite naturally appears unnatural.»