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1 | Male-female equality? | Gal 3:28 | Makarios | 7781 | ||
What does the Bible say about male-female equality? | ||||||
2 | Male-female equality? | Gal 3:28 | Hank | 7782 | ||
Male-female equality? In all of Scripture I know of no other passage that says it more forthrightly or succinctly than does Galatians 3:28. We are, all of us, male and female, one in Christ Jesus. --Hank | ||||||
3 | Male-female equality? | Gal 3:28 | Makarios | 7796 | ||
Thanks for a good, sound answer, Hank! Throughout Scripture, I see Jesus as having a very high view of women. In a Jewish culture where women were discouraged from studying the law, Jesus taught women right alongside men as equals (Matthew 14:21; 15:38). And when He taught, He often used women's activities to illustrate the character of the kingdom of God, such as baking bread (Luke 13:20), grinding corn (Luke 17:35), and sweeping the house to find a lost coin (Luke 15:8-10). Some Jewish Rabbis taught that a man should not speak to a woman in a public place, but Jesus not only spoke to a woman (who was a Samaritan) but also drank from her cup! (John 4:1-30) The first person He appeared to after resurrecting from the dead was Mary and not the male disciples (John 20). Clearly, Jesus had a very high view of women. Galatians 3:28 (which you cited) tells us that there is neither male nor female in Christ. 1 Peter 3:7 says men and women are fellow heirs of grace. Ephesians 5:21 speaks of mutual submission between man and wife. In John 7:53-8:11 Jesus wouldn't permit the double standard of the woman being taken in adultery and letting the man go free. In Luke 10:39 Jesus let a woman sit at His feet, which was a place reserved for the male disciples. Verses such as these show that in God's eyes men and women are spiritually equal. Nevertheless, Scripture also speaks of male leadership in the family and in the church (Ephesians 5:22; 1 Corinthians 11:3; 14:34; 1 Timothy 2:11).. Thanks for your thoughts! |
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4 | Male-female equality? | Gal 3:28 | RElderCascade | 7870 | ||
Male dominance is an unfortunate unbiblical way to live out the gospel. Equality between men and women is the Biblically accurate approach. Especially in marriage and it carries over into all of life including co-laboring in the gospel. Therefore the Biblical reason for not placing women in authority over men in the church has nothing to do with dominance or tradition or attitudes toward women. The real issue prohibiting women pastors is headship, that is what 1 Tim 2:8-15 is referring to. The reason given is directly related to Adam’s accountability to God. Adam was first created, not Eve, therefore God communed in different ways with him than with the woman. Essentially Adam was originally given the responsibility to account to God for the woman, we see that is still true in Paul's epistle to Timothy. Paul says so by saying that it is substantive that Adam was not deceived, Eve was. God doesn't let the woman off the hook, instead He calls out for the responsible party to speak for the couple (remember Adam was given the command to tend the garden and not to eat from the tree of knowledge of good and evil--Eve wasn’t created yet). “Eve was deceived not Adam”, Adam shrunk from his position as head, Eve in her deception usurped Adam’s headship. Why else did God hold Adam responsible (rom. 5:18-19), since he wasn't deceived, the woman was? Certainly Paul is faithful enough to not shrink from crediting Eve if it was true that she is to blame? Adam tried to blame Eve but God holds him responsible. Look at the curses: Eve was cursed with pain in childbirth and in the eternal struggle with her husband’s authority; Adam was cursed with death, starting with effort/pain in work, and death (return to the earth). But Eve died also, because what happens through the head also happens to the woman. The issue that prohibits women in leadership is unhangable due to the creation order. Adam was the head over Eve before the fall and after the fall, and men today are the head over women (Eph 5:22). Eve’s accountability failings from the fall are permanent according to the New Testament, just as Adam’s are; sin (death) is still with us and the woman’s struggle for headship over the man is too. It is the latter issue that states women are not to be put in authority over a man spiritually. Review, male domination is not Biblical, equality with male headship is. Through the fall conditions stated in the curses are permanent, one of these that really comes from the creation order is unhangable no matter what trends exist in modern Evangelicalism. Namely, female headship is unbiblical. I have had the benefit to learn from my former pastor (who taught Old Testament at Trinity Evangelical Div./ Deerfield Ill.) who you can read more on this subject in “Recovering Biblical Manhood and Womanhood, an Evangelical Response” by Piper and Grudem (it is a great book with many contributions in it). Read Chapter three by Raymond Ortlund Jr. on this to get the full thought, he was my teacher, I commend him to you. His conclusion about the similarity between male dominance and Evangelical Feminism is hot, and for some may prove to be life changing. |
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5 | Male-female equality? | Gal 3:28 | Makarios | 7885 | ||
I always appreciate in-depth and well thought out answers like this one, RElderCascade! Well done! | ||||||