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Originally Posted by GarmGarf
You had false hope. It is like saying that women should be McDonald's workers, while men should be the managers, even though they get the same pay. The same pay, or "worth" doesn't cut it.
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Not really. Company standing is far different than a husband and a wife. Also, pay isn't exactly the issue. I avoided using company standing as an illustration because there are too many inconsistencies between it and a husband/wife relationship.
You see, a manager in a company has clear benefits over a regular employee, most prominently in terms of pay. It doesn't work that way in the family. In fact, there are no clear benefits to being a Christian husband. Some might say leadership itself is a benefit, but that's really debatable, since not all people enjoy leadership. Some might also say that leadership is a way for the husband to use his wife for his own benefit. However, if you follow the entire teaching about husbands and wives in Ephesians 5:22-29, you'll find that the husband cannot do that, and that his responsibility is
to his wife, to love and cherish her. Any deviation from (or misuse of) this teaching very well could be used unfairly by a husband for his own selfish means. That being said, you can't judge a doctrine by its deviants or heretics.
Check this out. Genesis 2:18 says:
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And the LORD God said, " It is not good that man should be alone; I will make him a helper comparable to him."
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This verse strengthens my point. " helper comparable to him" comes from the words " ezer kenegdo" in Hebrew, which means " helper corresponding to man". Some even speculate the meaning refers to "strength" or "power", so in this case it would be translated " a power corresponding to man." This term " helper" is also used when referring to God himself in Psalm 33:20. So it seems that the woman is of equal worth as man, again merely differing in function. the term "helper" we see here is not demeaning.
One does not lose value as a person by assuming the role of a helper. Far from it! The woman is the
perfect counterpart to man.