Thank you for this wonderful video, especially your quotes from John Chrysostom and Augustine. I left my Southern Baptist roots in the 1980s when the denomination began its turn to the right and it became clear that the role of women in the church was going to diminish to the point of disappearing. Every Christian woman needs to hear your message, but unfortunately, far too many are spiritual prisoners of the men in their lives and believe that any attempt to see things from another point of view is a sin.
In a mid-afternoon, pre-coffee haze I found myself wondering, from her Zoom name, what Annie had been awarded a CBE for. Half a cup of coffee later I caught up.
With regards to the man "leaving and cleaving to his wife" I cannot see Matriarchy there but I see the foreshadowing of the gospel dispensation. Let me first say that in my humbled view I see these words as spoken, not by Adam, but commentary by Moses himself as prophetic author of Genesis. In the male dominated world of the Hebrews, the man had everything to lose by leaving his father and mother. Much like how God told Abram to leave his Father's house. This is maximum vulnerability. Traditionally the male is the heir and the one to carry the family responsibility. This Moses completely subjugates in insisting that the man be ready to leave all that male dominated socio-economic-political world in utter respect for the marriage covenant. This to me, Is Moses prefiguring the gospel dispensation of the dignity of marriage above all other social responsibilities and the exaltation of the woman. This is the same Moses who seeing the Hebrews inability to grasp the full implication of the marriage covenant permitted them the bill of divorcement as indicated by Jesus.
I see a great thing happen in scripture which we often do not see replicated in the world of men. Where one truth is set in direct contradistinction with the other...and while on aspect of a truth may appear more beautiful and acceptable it must receive its necessary balance so that it might be complete. Such a thing happens with Justification by Faith and Justification by Work. Everyone sees forthwith the sublime beauty of Salvation by faith and Faith alone and often struggles to find compatible the doctrine of works that also must accompany salvation and indeed so closely that it is impossible to be saved without it. I see the same thing happening here with the equality of the woman(wife) with the husband and at the same time the submission of the wife to the headship of the wife. These two truths are set it seems in juxtaposition to each other. In natural creation the man is head over his wife and bears authority over her as says the Law but in Christ she receives an exaltation that make her the coequal with him not only by the mutuality of the grace of God but also by the love he the husbands now bears her freely through Christ. The Apostles being wise men never sort to enforce this headship that the Law gives the man but seeks to edify the woman to godly submission through the love of the man. This is evident as the man is exhorted to love the wife and who does not know it is the one who is superior in some respect that is called to love.....for mirroring Christ, he her and gives himself for her thus hoping to perfect all defect in her and brings her to himself(image). So as it is with Christian faith never to demand those things to which a man is naturally joined but to seek it by an entirely new route- Christ. Righteousness not sort by law but faith, Life sort not by seeking it but laying it down, etc. So the submission the submission of the wife is sort not by command but love. And so the love of the husband sealed not in gloating and pride but by the submission of the wife. So two things always as if in opposition perfects the Faith, always.
Thank you for this wonderful video, especially your quotes from John Chrysostom and Augustine. I left my Southern Baptist roots in the 1980s when the denomination began its turn to the right and it became clear that the role of women in the church was going to diminish to the point of disappearing. Every Christian woman needs to hear your message, but unfortunately, far too many are spiritual prisoners of the men in their lives and believe that any attempt to see things from another point of view is a sin.
Well said
In a mid-afternoon, pre-coffee haze I found myself wondering, from her Zoom name, what Annie had been awarded a CBE for. Half a cup of coffee later I caught up.
With regards to the man "leaving and cleaving to his wife" I cannot see Matriarchy there but I see the foreshadowing of the gospel dispensation. Let me first say that in my humbled view I see these words as spoken, not by Adam, but commentary by Moses himself as prophetic author of Genesis.
In the male dominated world of the Hebrews, the man had everything to lose by leaving his father and mother. Much like how God told Abram to leave his Father's house. This is maximum vulnerability. Traditionally the male is the heir and the one to carry the family responsibility. This Moses completely subjugates in insisting that the man be ready to leave all that male dominated socio-economic-political world in utter respect for the marriage covenant.
This to me, Is Moses prefiguring the gospel dispensation of the dignity of marriage above all other social responsibilities and the exaltation of the woman. This is the same Moses who seeing the Hebrews inability to grasp the full implication of the marriage covenant permitted them the bill of divorcement as indicated by Jesus.
I see a great thing happen in scripture which we often do not see replicated in the world of men. Where one truth is set in direct contradistinction with the other...and while on aspect of a truth may appear more beautiful and acceptable it must receive its necessary balance so that it might be complete. Such a thing happens with Justification by Faith and Justification by Work. Everyone sees forthwith the sublime beauty of Salvation by faith and Faith alone and often struggles to find compatible the doctrine of works that also must accompany salvation and indeed so closely that it is impossible to be saved without it.
I see the same thing happening here with the equality of the woman(wife) with the husband and at the same time the submission of the wife to the headship of the wife. These two truths are set it seems in juxtaposition to each other. In natural creation the man is head over his wife and bears authority over her as says the Law but in Christ she receives an exaltation that make her the coequal with him not only by the mutuality of the grace of God but also by the love he the husbands now bears her freely through Christ. The Apostles being wise men never sort to enforce this headship that the Law gives the man but seeks to edify the woman to godly submission through the love of the man. This is evident as the man is exhorted to love the wife and who does not know it is the one who is superior in some respect that is called to love.....for mirroring Christ, he her and gives himself for her thus hoping to perfect all defect in her and brings her to himself(image).
So as it is with Christian faith never to demand those things to which a man is naturally joined but to seek it by an entirely new route- Christ. Righteousness not sort by law but faith, Life sort not by seeking it but laying it down, etc. So the submission the submission of the wife is sort not by command but love. And so the love of the husband sealed not in gloating and pride but by the submission of the wife. So two things always as if in opposition perfects the Faith, always.