Wives Abused for Disobedience Says Southern Baptist “Theologian”

From Ethics Daily:

One reason that men abuse their wives is because women rebel against their husband’s God-given authority, a Southern Baptist scholar said Sunday in a Texas church.

“And husbands on their parts, because they’re sinners, now respond to that threat to their authority either by being abusive, which is of course one of the ways men can respond when their authority is challenged–or, more commonly, to become passive, acquiescent, and simply not asserting the leadership they ought to as men in their homes and in churches,” Ware said from the pulpit of Denton Bible Church in Denton, Texas.

Bruce Ware, professor of Christian theology at Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, Ky., said women desire to have their own way instead of submitting to their husbands because of sin.”

The article obviously plays fast and loose with the word “scholar.” Ware did discuss domestic violence as a horror, but the rationalizing here is sickening. In an abusive situation, the abused has no control over the abuser’s actions, period. Suggesting otherwise is part of the sickness. Ware validates the sickness.