Hierarchy was built into the created order as Paul says explicitly in 1 Corinthians, “3 But I want you to understand that the head of every man is Christ, the head of a wife is her husband, and the head of Christ is God” (1 Cor. 11:3). Not just hierarchy either, more specifically patriarchy; that is leadership and therefore the responsibility of the man. Nowhere in scripture, not on any page, is this order rescinded. It is in fact reiterated again and again in both covenants and is central to our understanding of sin. The Scriptures are adamant: The first Adam let sin into the world, the second Adam, Christ, defeated it.
It’s no wonder people cannot submit or handle this order in large measure, the first man and woman inverted it. But it is there none the less.
It’s not an accident that our egalitarian world is less Christian.
