Hi everyone, newbie here. -->
This thread is interesting! I seem to remember that verse about the chief shepherd and under shepherds in Peter are supposed to be examples to the flock, not overlords! Lordship belongs only to the Lord, no one else...
Of course, all mog's have to understand that they are examples, one way or the other! Too many of them are bad ones, sad to say.
VPW used to say that you NEVER let anyone lord over you ever, because JC paid the price for you and he is the only one. The error in practice came in with correlating Moses with mog's. Moses is supposed to be correlated with JC. Mog's (real ones) are supposed to correlate with Aaron & Miriam.
It gets sexual because of the wife/husband relationship in Corinthians. That's the only relationship power over someone else is appropriate biblically speaking, being the power to render due benevolence. So when someone other than a spousal relationship is doing lordship they are asking/demanding sex and vice versa or will eventually if not held accountable to the scrips.
Sexual abuse is not about sex. It's about power.
IMHO!
For those of you blaming the women, shame shame. Sure they could have said no, and those who did paid a price. Most of the time they were black balled, some were kicked out, sent LOA and other wonderful things. Such is life... Abuse of power is almost always followed by sexual abuse if not stopped asap. Eli's sons. God blamed Eli because he restrained them not.
