Ultimately, intellectual submission is a deliberate yielding of our mind.

Easons 5 and 22, wives, submit yourselves to your husbands and is used as a candy stick, if you will, for mistreatment in some relationships.

But that's not the complete context.

Dear young married couple, submission is one of those words that can make a room

feel tense really fast. Some hear it and think beauty, but others hear it and think control.

So what did God actually mean when he designed it? In this episode, we sat down with Cornelius Williams

for a thoughtful conversation on marital

submission, mutual submission, and the biblical case for all of that. We talked about what

submission is, what it's not, and why this conversation matters so much for Christian couples

who want to honor God without twisting scripture. Cornelius Williams is a full-time evangelist,

author, and former environmental scientist.

He's also a husband and a father, and we think you're going to really appreciate the depth he brings to

this conversation. All right. On to the interview. It's good to have Cornelius Williams on the

podcast today, man. Good to have you. I'm so honored. Thank you guys for having me,

and I'm tremendously looking forward to the conversation. I'm excited.

Aw, us as well. You have made such an impact on our movement, and this book that you wrote,

Will You Follow Me, which has to do with biblical submission, understanding it, and you use the term intellectual submission.

So let's start by defining that term. What does intellectual submission mean?

Absolutely. Well, I think the first place to begin is intellectual submission is an idea, a phraseology that no one has ever heard of, is pretty

much a made-up framework through time of trying to understand the mind of God, the ways of God,

and cognition.

We live in a very informed generation that most of this generation is inclined toward intelligence and information

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