Division Among the Genders

Because of God’s treat and the promised female treat against him, satin fears nothing more than women moving in power of the Holy Spirit and men working in partnership alongside them. As a result, whether the division among the genders is the result of cultural, social, or religious beliefs, it is very real.

In reality, the world as a whole is filled with cultures that see females as lowest form of the human species. In some cultures it is alright to kill ones wife, if she fails in any way to fulfill a man’s expectations. In some cultures, woman are set on fire, or killed outright, simple by failing to provide a proper marriage dowry. In some cultures, female babies are left to die, because more values is seen in a male child.

Cultural conception of how a woman should be treated, as well as her value as a human being, has been warped by what happened in the Garden. It does matter what their religious preferences are, human beings are still being affected by the sins of Adam and Eve. Since the fall, satins been working hard to destroy women, the “Givers of Life”. But more to the point, he has been working hard to keep men from being the “Protectors of Life”. This can be seen worldwide, as men use sexual (rape), physical and spiritual abuse in an endeavor to keep the female gender in her place.

Christians have not been exempt from satins influence. Both male and female, have been blinded to his influence with in the Church. Nor do they understand as a whole that the division between the genders is not simple resolved through blame, or control. Nor is it resolved by doctrinal beliefs that are designed to keep women in their place.

More often than they care to admit, Christian men have not been known to be as loving towards their mates, or accepting as Jesus was towards the woman that are a part of the Body of Christ. As Christian men who love the Lord, they should be willing to lay aside their cultural bigotry against women; the problem is that this kind of prejudice has been so ingrained into the male mind since childhood, that it is not as easy as it may seem to change the direction of their thinking. For in order to change the direction of our own thinking, let alone a man’s, we first have to recognize that we have a problem in the first place.

On other hand, women themselves have been affected by cultural stigmas about their place with in the home, and the church. So as a whole, we either bow to “male” authority or we lash out in protest. And once again, the way we react is going to be based on the culture that we come from, even if we are Children of God.

As a whole the gender division has flowed over into our children’s lives. Young girls are not taught the value of being Godly women of gentleness and love. And young boys are not being taught the value of being a loving male. The family unit, as a whole is unbalanced. As wives many women no longer see themselves as the “Givers of Life” despite being mothers and the men no longer see themselves as the “Protectors of Life” despite being fathers.