New article by Pr. Larry Kirkpatrick briefly addresses one of the baseline texts in the Bible about humanity and male and female relations. Humanity is fundamentally binary: masculine and feminine. The sexes are not interchangeable. Find it here.
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We could debate the validity of your binary approach. It is not clear what point you are trying to make. The point of Gen 1:27 is that both male and female are created in the image of God. The text makes no reference as to one being more important than the other. That’s its beauty, no?
Male and female are indeed created in the image of God. Genesis 1:27 suggests more though. The image of God is manifest in humanity, in a male mode and in a female mode. This is the way it is from the beginning. Neither is presented as more important than the other. Exactly! But something that is important, and which has been passed over, is that at the very beginning, humanity is fundamentally two-sexed. There is no general humanity, or humanity apart from gender. We all are shaped from the beginning of our very being, as sexually differentiated in every respect. Theologians would say we are speaking of ontology, the being of things, the way things simply are. Then how we serve God is ontologically predetermined. Then there is an order, a flow, an arrangement of things in the creation. I hope to expand on this further in a future item.