For ‘God has put all things in subjection under his feet.’ But when it says, ‘All things are put in subjection’, it is plain that this does not include the one who put all things in subjection under him. When all things are subjected to him, then the Son himself will also be subjected to the one who put all things in subjection under him, so that God may be all in all. Otherwise, what will those people do who receive baptism on behalf of the dead? If the dead are not raised at all, why are people baptized on their behalf? (1Corinthians 15: 27-29)

Paul is thought to be quoting Psalm 110, a hymn of spiritual submission and military victory.

The submission of the Son to God is interesting. The Greek is hupotasso, a military term for arranging troops, a kind of "falling in" to ranks. In the civilian world this falling in could suggest cooperation and collaboration within a group.

Will a day come when the Christ will fall-in? Will a day come where the separate identity of Christ - even though of one being with the Father - is to fade away? Does the victory of wholeness require the submission of individuality?

Adam Clarke, an early 18th Century Bible scholar, wrote of the final sentence above, "This is certainly the most difficult verse in the New Testament."

All three of these verses strike me as having significant potential to distract from Paul's primary message.