To find and
maintain a spiritual balance between the God ordained positions of authority
we must look to Scripture. The New Testament is the fulfillment of the old and
in it we find principles that tell us the correct line of authority and the
cure for sin, the ill of all mankind, and that includes discrimination based
upon gender.
The Cross of
Christ is the great equalizer. John 3:16 says, "Whosoever will" and that is an
all inclusive statement that leaves no one out on the basis of position in
society, mental capacity or gender. We also find a passage in Galatians that
tells us of our equal opportunity for salvation. "26 For we are all the
children of God by faith in Jesus Christ. 27 for as many of you as have been
baptized (identified) into Christ have put on Christ. 28 There is neither Jew
nor Greek, there is neither bond nor free, there is neither male or female;
for ye are all one in Christ Jesus" (Galatians 3:26-28). There is no sexism at
the foot of the Cross.
The Bible is not
sexist. Why? Because it accurately portrays the results of sin and does not
"guild the lily". The Bible records all kinds of sin; slavery and bondage and
the failures of its greatest heroes yet it also gives us the answer and the
cure for those sins against God and His established order. That answer? It is
a right relationship with God. In the Old Testament it was looking forward to
the supreme sacrifice and each time a sacrifice for sin was made it was
teaching the need for reconciliation to God. In the New Testament the "Lamb
that takes away the sin of the world" was born, died, buried and rose again
and then ascended to His place in Heaven and there He intercedes for us. It is
through belief in Him that the cure for sin is found and that includes the sin
of sexism.
The charge of
the sexism of the Bible is based upon a lack of knowledge of Scripture. When
men and women of all ages have taken their God ordained places and lived
according to "Thus says the LORD" then there is a wonderful balance between
the genders and that balance is what God began with and it is what He will end
with. There is an inordinate amount of attention paid to the various products
of sin and not to the root of it. It is only when there is personal
reconciliation with God through the LORD Jesus Christ that we find true
equality. "You shall know the truth and the truth shall make you free" (John
8:32).
SOURCE
Is God Male or Female?
Mother of God?
Judith Christ Bible?
TNIV: Translation
Treason
During the Old
Testament the whole world was a patriarchal society. That status of history is
very clear - not only in Scripture but in the social mores that governed most
societies in the world. By modern value systems and worldly human viewpoint
that is called sexist. God ordained the order in society not man and He is the
author of the establishment principles of authority. However, like everything
else, the fall man has corrupted this order and that has resulted in the
inequality of the standing of men and women through out history. The exclusion
and the discrimination that we find in our world is not new and is the result
of the fall of man and the introduction of sin - which is rebellion against
God. Therefore, we can rightly say that the term and the practice of sexism is
a result of - a product of the sin of mankind. The progressive revelation of
the Bible leads us to the cure for sexism and indeed all of the sinful
practices of the human race.