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Gender roles are not discrimination
Well meaning Christians have often mischaracterized the male/female relationship in the Bible. And the press has often picked it up as a stereotype.
In the first chapters of Genesis, God made man and woman in His image. That means absolute equal dignity.
In the church and in marriage however, they are complementary roles, just as nature assigns complementary roles. Only women, for example, can bear children. Only males can provide the necessary sperm for procreation.
So in the church, the male assumes a teaching responsibility, but that does not make the woman’s role less significant or less meaningful. It is simply different. In marriage, the Bible does tell us that the wife should submit to the husband. But in the very next verse it tells us that husbands are to give their lives up for their wives as Christ did for the Church. I call this mutual submission, with the heavier burden on the man.
It’s no surprise to me that every great crusade for women’s rights through history has been led by Christians.
Charles Colson | Apr 14, 2011 9:50 PM
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