Muslims, and unfortunately many Christians cannot accept the equality of women. Not to say that the sexes are identical. They fail to note that Jesus was very positive toward women, very advanced for his period. These Christians make the same mistake that most Muslims make by trying to live with the knowledge and cultural beliefs of 2,100 or 1,400 years ago. They also choose only one of the TWO creation stories told in Genesis. One story is that God created man and woman from the earth. This would make them co-equal. The other story is the more popular one (especially among men), that God took a rib out of Adam and made it into Eve. Thus she was subordinate to him. Many good Christians do not realize that these TWO different stories exist with their very different implications. Good luck with your husband. Perhaps you can relate better if you show him the part where God created man and woman together at the same time.
He works more than one job, one of them is pretty emotionally intense and time consuming. Add in the normal demands of a large family and money stresses and his plate is full. If he doesn’t want to have to deal with a problem that he isn’t confident about solving, he starts by telling me the problem does not exist. Weird, but he starts with denial, then concedes. His next step is to solve the problem if it has to be dealt with. My changed view of eschatology is a problem that he initially viewed (I think) as something that wasn’t relevant to our everyday and fairly demanding life. Telling his entire family (die hard dispentational believers) and our church family that they are wrong on one of their biggest beliefs is something that he doesn’t have the desire to deal with. Thus telling me to let it go and don’t go on and on with him about it; and to never bring it up in Sunday School.
Maybe sometimes I feel a tiny bit rebellious towards his having the final word when we disagree, but we are a team and it’s rare that we get to that point.