(26)Then God said, “Let us make man in our image, after our likeness and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the birds of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps upon the earth.” What, then, did God intend for our manhood and womanhood at the creation? And what did God decree as our punishment at the fall? The first two chapters of Genesis answer the first question and the third chapter answers the second. It follows, in this view, that a woman’s redemption in Christ releases her from the punishment of male headship. Male headship/domination (feminism acknowledges no distinction) was imposed upon Eve as a penalty for her part in the fall. My essay will be completely misunderstood if the distinction between male headship and male domination is not kept in mind throughout.Įvangelical feminism argues that God created man and woman as equals in a sense that excludes male headship. By male domination I mean the assertion of the man’s will over the woman’s will, heedless of her spiritual equality, her rights, and her value. 1 The antithesis to male headship is male domination. The model of headship is our Lord, the Head of the church, who gave Himself for us. In the partnership of two spiritually equal human beings, man and woman, the man bears the primary responsibility to lead the partnership in a God-glorifying direction.
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Man and woman are equal in the sense that they bear God’s image equally. My purpose in this essay is to demonstrate from Genesis 1-3 that both male-female equality and male headship, properly defined, were instituted by God at creation and remain permanent, beneficent aspects of human existence. They lay the very foundation of Biblical manhood and womanhood. One way or the other, all the additional Biblical texts on manhood and womanhood must be interpreted consistently with these chapters.
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Why go all the way back to the first three chapters of the Bible, if our concern is with manhood and womanhood today? Because as Genesis 1-3 go, so goes the whole Biblical debate.