The above meme was a counter to what appeared to be against the the biblical family order. I didn't want what was presented to be the representative view of Christians, let alone, the view of scripture.
I've written to that person a response that person the biblical position, and the following is my reply to:
".... I have previously looked at your other memes and it is decidedly against male Patriarchy. Interestingly you also do not respond to your critics.
Of course there are different kinds of patriarchy, and we both assuredly agree that the abusiveness, cruelty, and arrogance is not biblical at all. Husbands should never hit their wives (1 Timothy 3:2-3), treat them as slaves, nor should they consider themselves as above them in terms of worth (1 Peter 3:7).
With that said, are you against Complementarianism (1 Corinthians 11:3)? Are you against the notion of wives having only one primary job, and that is to raise children & furthermore, are you against the barring of women from Pastoral and Eldership (1 Timothy 2:11-15)?
Because all this is in scripture.
I agree that women have been mistreated, abused, & underestimated, using the regulations to their advantage, but past abuses doesn't make the gender roles prescribed wrong as they were not the product of male patriarchy but by God Himself (1 Peter 1:20-21). ....".
The male headship and authority should never be abusive or done with arrogance, but his position should not be done away with. It is God's model of family, indeed, it is reflective of the Trinity as shown in the scropture above, but more so in Isaiah 48:16-17:
16 Come ye near unto me, hear ye this; I have not spoken in secret from the beginning; from the time that it was, there am I: and now the Lord God, and his Spirit, hath sent me.
17 Thus saith the Lord, thy Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel; I am the Lord thy God which teacheth thee to profit, which leadeth thee by the way that thou shouldest go.
- Isaiah 48:16-17
