We assume that this verse means that the husband should lead his wife, but does Christ really lead the church?  We have no record of Jesus ever giving directions for how to build a church after he was gone.  He established no rituals, no holy days, and his directions for membership were fuzzy at best.  And, with all apologies to those who believe that somehow their church takes directions directly from God, Jesus doesn’t seem to be particularly interested in how the church do

1. If the bible is unchanging, then it can not have been intended to communicate one thing to the people to whom it was originally given and something entirely different today.  If our modern common sense reading of scripture is in conflict with how the ancients would have understood the same verses, then our modern understanding is wrong, no matter how obvious, universally held or apparent it is. 2. Where the bible appears to be in conflict with its self or with the real wor