Tuesday, 28 August 2012

Submission in the Garden

Here's what I think...

The relationship between the Incarnate Son (Jesus on earth) and the Father is the model of how to apply the human-Divine relationship, not a model of how the male-female or husband-wife relationship is to operate. All humans should pray and submit to the Father "Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven"; Jesus models this for us in the Garden of Gethsemane with "not my will, but Thine be done." I don't think it is correct to use Jesus' submission to the Father as an example of male-female or husband-wife relationships. 

The principle is not that wives should submit to husbands as Jesus did to the Father, but that all people should submit to the Triune God just as Jesus submitted to the Father.

3 comments:

  1. Hi Tere,
    Have you read Healing the Gospel by Derek Flood?
    xx Kerry

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    1. No I haven't Kerry, but happy to look into it :)
      thanks!

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