Welcome to the Bear Marriage Podcast. I'm Sheila Ray Greigwar from Bear Marriage.

Where we'd like to talk about

healthy evidence-based biblical advice for your sex life and your marriage.

And I am joined today by my husband Keith.

Hey everybody.

And we want to talk about something which has come up a lot in the comment section and you know sometimes you get these these topics that you think you've dealt with but you really haven't because more aspects of it keep coming and I just thought

maybe today we can we can settle some things once for all so we are going to talk

today about complimentarianism versus egalitarianism versus egalitarianism and my argument that most

complimentarians are actually egalitarian all right and before we start that couple of

things when I say complimentarian what I mean is the belief

that in marriage, a husband is an authority over the wife.

And so marriage is a hierarchical thing where the husband

leads the wife submits the husband makes the decisions

whereas egalitarianism is the belief that husbands and wives follow

Christ together and submit to one another together.

Okay, and there's biblical arguments that you can make for both.

Okay, the Bible can be used to defend either, but we think that it's stronger on egalitarianism

and that's certainly certainly according to our data

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