“Why can’t she just trust me?” “If we’re equal, why should he be in charge?” “When can he grow up?” The submission of a woman to a man may be explained as three things. First, it is a gift. An often overlooked feature of the Bible’s wifely submission commands is how they are addressed to the wives, not the husbands. In contrast to the Qur’an, for example, the Bible never tells husbands to make their wives submit—quite the contrary. Consider
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