Author Blog: Cathy Lamb's response to Michelle Duggar's Marital Advice
Cathy Lamb presented her husband with Michelle Duggar's marital advice and blogged the conversation. Here is my response to Cathy Lamb's blog:
St. Paul - who was Roman and never married - did write that wives should submit to husbands. That was the Roman way.
It was not Jesus' way and as best as I can tell, Jesus never check-marked that addition to His word. Jesus hung out with prostitutes and never required anyone to submit to Him. In fact, He washed the feet of His disciples, which was a woman's job and there for supposedly beneath His dignity. To me, it sounds like Jesus was into equality and egalitarian lifestyles.
In the Creation story in Genesis, it's pointed out that a woman was made from a rib, so that she would stand side by side with her husband. Not from a headbone, to rule over him, not from a footbone, to be under him, but from a rib, so as to be at his side.
I think Jesus' egalitarian habits and the Creation equality story both trump Paul's marriage advice on their own. Combined, it's a slam dunk, a strike, a home run with bases loaded in favor of equality in marriage.
That's my opinion. :)
http://cathylamb.org/2012/02/michelle-duggars-advice/