The husband is to be like God the Father: The Excellent Wife P/4

                                           
                                     Read Part One HERE

In this post I will continue to focus on bible teacher and author Martha Peace. This time we will look at statements from Chapter Four of her book "The Excellent Wife."

Martha Peace: "The husband-wife relationship is similar to the Trinity. Within the Trinity there is equality in being, but as far as functions within the Trinity are concerned, God the Father is superior over God the Son and God the Spirit who voluntarily submit themselves to God the Father. Husbands and wives strive to have a relationship that follows God's pattern above."


Martha Peace: "A wife is to help her husband become like Jesus."

Martha Peace: "In your relationship with your husband, God wants you to communicate in love and experience a righteous intimacy through sharing thoughts, present and future desires, aspirations, goals, struggles and spiritual insights. Your words are to be edifying, your tasks sacrificial. Your motive for the glory of God. Remember that your pattern for oneness is the Trinity."

My Comment:

The teaching that within the God-head God the Father has authority over God the Son and God the Spirit throughout eternity in relation to their functions has become very popular since the '70s when it was introduced by Presbyterian minister George William Knight III. He, furthermore, developed the teaching on the roles of men and women connecting these roles to the roles within the Trinity in that the role of the wife is connected to the subordinate or inferior role of God the Son and the role of the husband is connected to the authoritative or superior role of God the Father. This teaching has become very popular in Evangelical circles.
However, the above teaching is unbiblical since God the Son in His Divinity never has, is not now and never will be subordinate or inferior to God the Father neither in function nor in being.
God the Son in His Humanity was subordinate to God the Father and only for a season.
Moreover the Bible does not teach on the different roles of men and women connecting these roles to roles within the Trinity. In Genesis 1:26-28 we learn that God made them male and female and told them to rule over creation together as a team on an equal basis as confirmed in Genesis 2:18 when God provides the man with a fitting/matching/corresponding partner.

As for a wife helping her husband to become like Jesus, that is not a task God has given to any wife. Instead, Jesus Himself will help any husband to become like Him, if he is willing to co-operate (Philippians 1:6).

 

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