God: "I looked for someone to take a stand for me, and stand in the gap" (Ezekiel 22:30)
Without the companion of Christ, the primacy of [the wife's submission to] the husband 'in everything' (Eph. 5:24) could be misunderstood as a license for every form of male tyranny. The comparison with Christ shows the content, character and limits of this subjection. Christ's headship is a reign of sacrificial love.
A Christian has no need of human philosophy. It is unnecessary and, more often than not, misleading. Where it happens to be right it will agree with Scripture, and is therefore unnecessary. Where it is wrong it will disagree with Scripture, and is therefore misleading. It has nothing necessary or reliable to offer. By nature it is speculation, based on man's limited and fallible insights and understanding. It is always unreliable and always divisive.
