Simply put, taking abuse is not an act of submission. It puts your life and health in danger.
Really, this logic and this misunderstanding of submission will lead to a wife thinking it is her duty to sit by and watch while the husband beats the kids. If she cannot intervene for herself and must just take it as an act of submission then she would be just as wrong to try and protect her children. If the husband, in this case, is determined to abuse then to submit to abuse (which simply and plainly cannot be done, you do not submit to abuse) is to allow the husband to beat whomever he desires. And to try to stop him would be equated with rebellion and lack of submission.
This case cannot be supported by Scripture because the Bible never equates being persecuted or abused with the role of a wife in submission to her husband. Submission has nothing to do with allowing the "head" to do whatever he wants. If he sins, it is not an act of submission to be on the receiving end of that sin.
Bottom line - this exposes a very serious misunderstanding of what it means to submit.
Phillip
[Edited on 9-29-05 by pastorway]
Really, this logic and this misunderstanding of submission will lead to a wife thinking it is her duty to sit by and watch while the husband beats the kids. If she cannot intervene for herself and must just take it as an act of submission then she would be just as wrong to try and protect her children. If the husband, in this case, is determined to abuse then to submit to abuse (which simply and plainly cannot be done, you do not submit to abuse) is to allow the husband to beat whomever he desires. And to try to stop him would be equated with rebellion and lack of submission.
This case cannot be supported by Scripture because the Bible never equates being persecuted or abused with the role of a wife in submission to her husband. Submission has nothing to do with allowing the "head" to do whatever he wants. If he sins, it is not an act of submission to be on the receiving end of that sin.
Bottom line - this exposes a very serious misunderstanding of what it means to submit.
Phillip
[Edited on 9-29-05 by pastorway]