Statement 5: We have the subjugation of women and the idea that they are inferior to men. (EVERYWHERE!)

In Response: The term “subjugate” refers to a conquering nature. I don’t recall ever reading in the Bible that God created woman to be “conquered”, nor that God considers women “inferior”. Everything I read in the Bible tells me that God considers all humans as his children. Note that in heaven, there is no male or female, nor giving in marriage (see Matthew 22:30; Mark 12:25; Luke 20:35; Galatians 3:28). Let’s look at some other Scriptures regarding how God considers man and woman…

The Holy Bible, New International Version,

1st Corinthians 11:3, 7-9, 11-12

³Now I want you to realize that the head of every man is Christ, and the head of the woman is man, and the head of Christ is God.

⁷A man ought not to cover his head, since he is the image and glory of God; but the woman is the glory of man. ⁸For man did not come from woman, but woman from man; ⁹neither was man created for woman, but woman for man.

¹¹In the Lord, however, woman is not independent of man, nor is man independent of woman. ¹²For as woman came from man, so also man is born of woman. But everything comes from God.

Acts 2:17-18

¹⁷“‘In the last days, God says, I will pour out my Spirit on all people. Your sons and daughters will prophesy, your young men will see visions, your old men will dream dreams.

¹⁸Even on my servants, both men and women, I will pour out my Spirit in those days, and they will prophesy.

Acts 5:14

¹⁴Nevertheless, more and more men and women believed in the Lord and were added to their number.*

*This is especially significant in light of John 3:16; 10:28; Matthew 18:14; and Luke 19:10

Acts 8:12

¹²But when they believed Philip as he preached the good news of the kingdom of God and the name of Jesus Christ, they were baptized, both men and women.

Acts 9:1-2

¹Meanwhile, Saul was still breathing out murderous threats against the Lord’s disciples. He went to the high priest ²and asked him for letters to the synagogues in Damascus, so that if he found any there who belonged to the Way, whether men or women, he might take them as prisoners to Jerusalem.

Acts 13:50

⁵⁰But the Jews incited the God-fearing women of high standing and the leading men of the city.

Acts 16:13-14

¹³On the Sabbath we went outside the city gate to the river, where we expected to find a place of prayer. We sat down and began to speak to the women who had gathered there. ¹⁴One of those listening was a woman named Lydia, a dealer in purple cloth from the city of Thyatira, who was a worshiper of God. The Lord opened her heart to respond to Paul’s message.

Acts 17:12

¹²Many of the Jews believed, as did also a number of prominent Greek women and many Greek men.

Acts 22:4

⁴I persecuted the followers of this Way to their death, arresting both men and women and throwing them into prison.

Romans 16:12

¹²Greet Tryphena and Tryphosa, those women who work hard in the Lord.

Philippians 4:3

³Yes, and I ask you, loyal yokefellow, help these women who have contended at my side in the cause of the gospel, along with Clement and the rest of my fellow workers, whose names are in the book of life.

1^st Timothy 5:1b-2

Treat younger men as brothers, ²older women as mothers, and younger women as sisters, with absolute purity.*

* editor’s note: treat women with purity!

It is plain to see from the Scripture examples what God’s Word has to say about the relationship between men and women. God values neither one above the other; He desires each and every one of us, regardless of gender. God created us to be with him. As God does not judge by appearance (see 1^st Samuel 16:7; Galatians 2:6), neither does he care about our gender with regards to our worship of Him. However, do not be deceived; God considers sacred the distinction of the genders, as shown in His creative design of man and woman, who, though both in the image of God, are also uniquely and differently designed (cf. Gen 1:27). Any attempt to erase that distinction is labeled an “abomination”. 

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