Our society is rejecting God’s view of women and they are doing so at two different extremes. One extreme says that women can do without men in every way, form, and fashion. This view is reflected in the government’s website that focused on “the life of Julia.” It says, in essence, “Women, you don’t need men.” The problem, though, for anyone who is thinking clearly is that all the government is doing is substituting “man” with “government.” Let the government take care of you instead of men. That is not empowering. That’s enslavement. That substitutes a man who can, and will if he is following Christ, love you with every fiber of his being, with the government that is heartless, faceless, and soulless.
The other extreme says that women are superior to men. For whatever reason or in whatever way you want to judge, women are superior to men and can do anything and everything better than men can do. But the reality is, for anyone who is serious about the truth, men are different from women; women are different from men and we each have our own strengths and weaknesses and when you put us together in the church of Jesus Christ, we can reach our potential and be all that God designed us to be. If truth flows from the nature of God, then however God views women, then that is the true view of women.
Let’s begin with the Old Testament view of women…
GENESIS 1:26-27; 2:20ff:
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When God decided to make mankind, the text says he made mankind “male and female” after His likeness, in His image. So, women bear the image of God just as surely as man.
God created woman from the rib, the side, of man. “Helper suitable” for him translates a Hebrew preposition that means “opposite” or “in front of.” That shows that the woman is the equal, counterpart, to man.
THE ROLE OF WOMEN IN JUDAISM:
The Old Testament often presents women in a favorable light, strong women who make decisive decisions. The book of Genesis presents women in that way. Women are not presented as sex objects for men nor intended to be their slaves. Space is limited here, but the law of Moses took care of women in a way that strongly contrasted with pagan societies of that day. From the law of divorce (Deut. 24:1-4) to the so-called “levriate” marriage (Deut. 25:5-10), to the treatment of female POWs (Deut. 21:10-14), to the capricious and unjust accusation of adultery (Deut. 22:13-21), God viewed women with dignity, respect, favor, and appreciation.
