Restoration and Relationship: Marriage in Ephesians 5
By Ed Marcelle If Genesis two is all about marriage's design, then Ephesians five is all about restoration and relationship. Butchering Ephesians Five. A lot of people (especially my more liberal Christian friends) will start at Ephesians 5:21 with “submit to one another” and stop right there. And this is where they get their view of marriage: that it is this two-headed beast, where man and woman submit to each other and no one is really the head. The conservative and fundamentalist Christian’s favorite marriage verse is Ephesians 5:22 – “wives submit to your husbands.” They stop here and miss the big picture. Ephesians Five Brings the Gospel to the Broken Genesis Design for Marriage. But if we go through the whole chapter, we see that the ...
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