Continuing to discuss the Creation stories in Genesis, we again explore what really happen when Sin entered the world. I can't help but imagine how God intended the world to be before Sin came into existence. This mindset is what guides my thinking as we discuss women, men, and God.
God created humans so that He could have a relationship with it. During this perfect time of creation, God took His creation and ripped a rib out of it to create another creation, a creation that could share a relationship with His first creation. I'm fairly convinced that God created all of this so relationships could happen. From what I can gather, God knew that in order to have a perfect relationship His first creation needed a second creation to be in relationship with. Great, so now we have God and his two creations, which were made to all have a perfect relationship with each other. Perfect.
Then Sin started, which led to blaming and role creation. It made humanity aware of nakedness (not a good thing I might add. Spend a few days at a nude beach and, once you get comfortable, you will understand how amazing it feels to be physically naked and unashamed with others) and caused them to literally hide from God. I learned from a small age that hiding from God isn't good, partly because it's impossible (I still try however, I just don't go to a full extent as I did when I was little. No more getting all the pillows in the house, putting them in a pile, then burying myself in them, hoping the goose filled fabric would hide me from The Almighty).
Then this whole idea of gender roles entered human thought. On this topic I can't even really write about. I can't deny that men and women are made different. It's scientifically and common sense-ly proven that men and women are different. I don't think though that God intended this to be a bad thing however, I think it was suppose to be an amazing, divine concept of a perfect relationship. The Created just messed it up.
Now I'm left with the question of what should we do with these gender differences? Maybe God didn't want it to be like this, but there is a lot God didn't want that happened because of Sin. That doesn't mean we just give up though, that's not what God has done. Instead we have strived to be in perfect relation with our Creator again, yet we continue to fail, but continue to strive. If we are striving for perfect relationship, what then are we to do with the difference in gender? Ignore or point out? Work with or set strict guidelines? I don't know.
We've talked about it in sociology. Gender is social construction, sex is biological.
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