Today,
reply is on the Creation of the first pair, Adam; the equality of
human males and females; and the principles and process for sacred
studies. The female was to affirm and complement the male that was
fashioned to be a life companion to the divine fullness (we also say,
divinity; the Godhead; the Father, the Son, the Holy Spirit), and she
was to continually make visible to man the unseen active presence
who is GOD. One of the fighters in the “Yahoo! Answers” public
forum on Religion and Spirituality who uses the ID “Anonymous”
(no profile information shown) posted the following:
Studying
1 Corinthians 11:2-16?
so
I'm trying to understand this passage and I've been stumped on it for
days. can someone please help me? Everything I'm studying seems to
suggest this passage is saying men and women are equal, they just
have different tasks and gifts and whatnot. What really stumps me
though is that it says women were created for men... what does that
mean? Every commentary says that this passage proves it's wrong for
women to be banned from say working a job and things like that, I
know it's not saying that. but still, I feel a little confused and
scared reading this and it's hard to express why. I have huge dreams
as a musical artist to glorify God with my art, to use it to plant
and water seeds and I've always felt the Spirit call me to that path.
so I can't help but be confused as to why we were made for men? what
exactly does that mean? What if a woman should remain single all her
life? I guess I'm just confused as to why we were made for men, if
God has a unique path for each of us. I realize it's not saying women
are made to be men's "play things" or "slave" or
anything like that . . . but what DOES it mean exactly? that's what I
don't get. Again, if I were to be single forever, which, I don't want
to be but still, if I WAS and pursued a path a career all my life
doing service to the Lord in any way I could... is there something
wrong with that? someone please explain this to me with biblical
truths. and thank you so much for helping me
THE
GOLDEN ARROW: For ye are all the children of God by faith in Christ
Jesus. For as many of you as have been baptized into Christ have put
on Christ. There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither bond nor
free, there is neither male nor female: for ye are all one in Christ
Jesus. And if ye be Christ’s,
then are ye Abraham’s seed, and
heirs according to the promise. (Galatians 3: 26-29, King James
Version, KJV)
THE
DOUBLE DAGGER: Make Me A Servant (04/08/2019); From Spirit Not Mud
(02/26/2019); Divinity Embodied In Flesh (12/30/2018); The Priesthood
of Adam (11/02/2018); Childbearing Pertains to Judgment?
(02/23/2018); We Begin Within GOD (02/06/2018); Having Personhood
Without Gender? (12/13/2017); Gender, Sex and Christian Beliefs?
(05/18/2016); The Gender of GOD? (12/29/2015); Gender and Salvation?
(10/01/2015)
“Anonymous”,
explaining or justifying the Creation of GOD, and the operations for
communication, exchange and interaction between men and women should
become clearer where you will acknowledge that your study must focus
on divine intent, eternal purpose, and the sovereign will of GOD,
rather than gender differences, sexual joining, or diverse civil and
social covenants among mankind. Divine truth and sacred knowledge
must be the primary focus rather than worldly and secular
knowledge: Ask, what does GOD want man to do, and what are the
ways woman can facilitate the work that man must do? It is possible
for the two to operate as one flesh, however, this does not mean as a
two-headed, four-armed, four-eyed creature displaying four hands and
two mouths.
The
divine name given to the first pair was Adam, and the two were a
single living entity before the Maker. They both were to exercise
dominion over the earth as their home. The female was separated from
the substance of the male sharing in the oneness without
sameness imparted to him from GOD, and so was fit to exist as
a discrete presentation of the full range of expressions, motives,
and personhood that had been imparted from GOD to reside within the
male. She was to be a help that was meet (we say, fit; suitable) for
the male in his work of overseeing the animals, managing their
offspring as family, and tending the plants of the Garden as well as
his partner in reproduction that would populate the earth. The male
would give her the name “Eve”, and call her “the mother of all
living” to proclaim her a caretaker of all life on the earth, not
because she would give birth to every living creature. As a mediator
for Adam, and a connecting link to GOD, Eve would affirm the
existence of Adam as an embodiment of divine presence; would
prefigure the Incarnation of divinity as Jesus Christ; and she would
have place along with Adam in such sacred practice as atonement,
praise, prayer, priestly service, sabbath-keeping, and sacrificial
worship. For nearly 1,000 years the pair themselves would impart to
their offspring an inheritance of sacred testimony and divine
promise. Consider again the following that uses language from the
Bible:
1.
Genesis 2: 7-8, King James Version (KJV): 7 And the LORD
God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into
his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul. 8 And
the LORD God planted a garden eastward in Eden;
and there he put the man whom he had formed.
2.
Genesis 2: 15-24, KJV: 15 And the LORD God
took the man, and put him into the garden of Eden to dress it and to
keep it. 16 And the LORD God commanded the man,
saying, Of every tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat: 17 But
of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of
it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die.
18 And the LORD God said, It is not good
that the man should be alone; I will make him an help meet for him.
19 And out of the ground the LORD God formed
every beast of the field, and every fowl of the air; and brought them
unto Adam to see what he would call them: and whatsoever Adam called
every living creature, that was the name thereof. 20 And Adam
gave names to all cattle, and to the fowl of the air, and to every
beast of the field; but for Adam there was not found an help meet for
him. 21 And the LORD God caused a deep sleep to
fall upon Adam, and he slept: and he took one of his ribs, and
closed up the flesh instead thereof; 22 And the rib, which the LORD
God had taken from man, made he a woman, and brought her unto the
man. 23 And Adam said, This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my
flesh: she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man.
24 Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall
cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.
3.
1st Timothy 2: 13-15, KJV: 13 For Adam was first
formed, then Eve. 14 And Adam was not deceived, but the woman being
deceived was in the transgression. 15 Notwithstanding she shall be
saved in childbearing, if they continue in faith and charity and
holiness with sobriety.
4.
1st Corinthians 7: 10-16, KJV: 10 And unto the married
I command, yet not I, but the Lord, Let not the wife depart
from her husband: 11 But and if she depart, let her remain
unmarried or be reconciled to her husband: and let not the
husband put away his wife. 12 But to the rest speak I, not
the Lord: If any brother hath a wife that believeth not, and she be
pleased to dwell with him, let him not put her away. 13 And the
woman which hath an husband that believeth not, and if he be pleased
to dwell with her, let her not leave him. 14 For the unbelieving
husband is sanctified by the wife, and the unbelieving wife is
sanctified by the husband: else were your children unclean; but now
are they holy. 15 But if the unbelieving depart, let him depart. A
brother or a sister is not under bondage in such cases: but
God hath called us to peace. 16 For what knowest thou, O wife,
whether thou shalt save thy husband? or how knowest thou, O
man, whether thou shalt save thy wife?
There
is far more that should be said, correctly examined, and spiritually
apprehended. (For example, 5. 1st Peter 3: 1-7, KJV: 1
Likewise, ye wives, be in subjection to your own husbands;
that, if any obey not the word, they also may without the word be won
by the conversation of the wives; 2 While they behold your chaste
conversation coupled with fear. 3 Whose adorning let it not
be that outward adorning of plaiting the hair, and of wearing
of gold, or of putting on of apparel; 4 But let it be the
hidden man of the heart, in that which is not corruptible, even
the ornament of a meek and quiet spirit, which is in the sight of
God of great price. 5 For after this manner in the old time the holy
women also, who trusted in God, adorned themselves, being in
subjection unto their own husbands: 6 Even as Sara obeyed Abraham,
calling him lord: whose daughters ye are, as long as ye do well, and
are not afraid with any amazement. 7 Likewise, ye husbands, dwell
with them according to knowledge, giving honour unto the wife,
as unto the weaker vessel, and as being heirs together of the grace
of life; that your prayers be not hindered.) Even so, I trust this
fragment will be useful. Be it unto you according to your faith.
AN
AFTERTHOUGHT: Adam was a perfect creation, and they were placed into
a setting that was complete and ideal (we say, perfect) for their
continuing communication, exchange, and interaction with divinity.
The male and the female both were flawed, imperfect and incomplete
without their partner. Just
as the first pair were not perfect without GOD, mankind today will
continue as defective, fallible, and unfinished until finally
perfected through Jesus Christ.
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