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Saturday, February 9, 2008

wedding vows

Tonight I discovered a webpage with sample wedding vows. These vows are on the bible.org website, on which there are many resources produced by professors at and students of Dallas Theological Seminary.

Notice how many of the vows include that the woman will "obey" her husband. I was surprised that the word "submit" was not used, instead. I know that there are different words in New Testament Greek, one (hupakouw) translated as "obey" and the other (hupotassw) traditionally translated as "submit". In the Bible women are never told to "obey" their husbands. They are told (Eph. 5:22) to hupotassw to their husbands.

How do you react to these wedding vows?

Do you know of any webpages which give wedding vows from a Christian egalitarian viewpoint?