“We should not be surprised that men lust for leadership. But we must guard them against their natural craving to rule and oppress and urge them to be happy in their proper role.”

Very, very funny!

Reminds me of an incident in college. Someone was reading a story to a group of us that had nothing but double-entendré. They were all laughing, even though the story was all about electronic components.

When someone objected to this, they claimed they didn’t mean anything but what the words said. Yet we all knew that they wouldn’t have been laughing without the dirty meanings.

Same thing with male supremacy. They claim they’re only teaching “servant/leader”, but just try and pry their fingers off the wheel.

And great work, Paula. I think some of the comps ought to read this, since it holds up a mirror to just how twisted and distorted their theology really is. Like someone else, I was almost convinced that female supremacism is true, without my browser window reminding me that this was a parody!

Sonnet, you have nailed it.

Good question. Only God knows for sure, but there are some who would have to have split personalities not to know that what they’re teaching is against scripture, because they claim to know it and have the creds to prove it.

Yes, I rejoice with every freed prisoner. Men who feel threatened by strong and intelligent women are the wimpiest of all. The ones who play the word games are trying to stay happily married while not being laughed at by their “alpha” pals.

I have often been taught that wives should **choose** to submit to their husbands except for when it would obviously be sinning…that this is God’s will and thus a specific command for wives. Since God’s word says that if we love Him, we will obey His commands (John Chap.14), I honestly believed that I was showing my love to God by **choosing** to submit to my husband even when I did not agree with his decisions. I did not feel the freedom to initiate further discussions with my husband when we were in disagreement because I thought that that would make me a contentious and unsubmissive wife. The strange thing is that he believed that I had become swayed into accepting his decisions and was now in agreement with him when I thought for sure that he knew I was *choosing* to submit. This resulted in me feeling unloved by him (that he was disregarding my thoughts and feelings) which led to feelings of alienation and resentment. It was not a good recipe for a healthy marriage.

It took me a long time to figure out that I was trying to serve two masters, that I had placed myself into bondage and slavery to another human, and that this *choosing* was not really a free choice but under compulsion to a man-made interpretation, law and doctrine. Soft comps say that to submit is not synonymous with to obey. And some comps even speak of mutual submisison. But when they go on to explain it, there is nothing mutual about it. It looks pretty much like obedience for wives. They may emphasize that a husband should not *force* his wife to submit to his final decisions, but if she wants to please God, then she should *willingly* submit to his decisions. They just find ways to speak around the politically incorrect words obedience and obey. “But a rose by any other name is still a rose.”

I wonder just how many of these false teachers are purposefully trying to deceitfully mislead women and how many are actually deceived into believing that their view of submission really is different from obedience, bondage and slavery. I am so thankful that God has set me free from this deception.