Tuesday, January 15, 2008  A known harm and a known good  A
complementarian in the blogsphere wrote this to me. I have
copied it here without permission because I find it a fair and
respectful comment. Thank you.     I know that this is not just
a gender debate about ideas and biblical texts, but a dialogue
between real people who have suffered real harm and about a
Savior who has suffered to overcome the power of sin. However,
this is what I do not understand. A person who has been
emotionally and physically abused has suffered real harm. A
person who has not been given a voice, a person for whom someone
else has acted as the literal head, making decisions, and
deciding what is best for them - that person has suffered real
harm.  On the other side, someone who has been abandoned or who
has an unfaithful spouse also suffers real harm.  What I do not
understand is how the teaching of mutual submission is one of
the things that causes real suffering between two people. Why
teach something that we know can cause