Is the example of Jesus’ earthly submission to the Father a model of a wife’s submission to her husband?
Luke 22
42 “Father, if you are willing, take this cup from me; yet not my will, but yours be done.”
John 14
31 “but the world must learn that I love the Father and that I do exactly what my Father has commanded me.”
Some people say a wife’s submission to her husband is to be compared to Christ’s earthly submission to the Father. But no such comparison is made in the Bible. In Ephesians Paul compares a husband’s love for his wife to the way Christ loved the church. If Paul had meant to compare a wife’s submission to Christ’s submission he could have done it at this point, yet he didn’t.
I have two questions.
The first is, if Scripture doesn’t make the comparison, should we be making it?
The second is, what is the difference between Christ’s submission and a wife’s submission?
