GOP Hopeful Harris Says Wives Should Submit

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4. He would claim he's just proclaiming the 'Biblical' role God gave women

This view of 'Biblical truth' has been a major teaching in the SoBaptist churches since their 2000 convention. Jimmy Carter left the SBC in 2000 because of this new emphasis. His statement explaining why he left was widely publicized.

This view is termed 'complementarianism' in Evangelical circles. Grudem, a leading theologian, even came up with a revision of the doctrine of the Trinity to support it. In this view, Jesus was not just subordinate to God while he was on earth; he was subordinate to God from the very beginning. This view is known as the Eternal Subordination of the Son (ESS). So just like Jesus joyfully is subordinate to God, women are to be joyfully subordinate to men. This subordination supposedly extends eternally into heaven.