Remember, above all, God is in control of us, as says in Psalms 22:27-31. God loves us and has provided a way for us to be in His body. And there is only one body, one Lord, one faith, one baptism. (Eph 4:5-6) Only in God can we be sure whether or not we are following His precious will. Only in Him will we all be able to exist in peace. This according to Isaiah 4:1-6 does not exclude the Jews because there is a remnant that will believe in Christ. And this is not just in the 1st century but a promise for all time. God is God forever.
Then of course there is the focus that God places on women, because after all without women there would not be men or vice versa. God created two of a kind so that we know our limitations, so that we know we depend on each other and need each other even if we are merely friends, simply because of the different ways we react, think, emote all because of the variation in hormones that run through our bodies. The focus that God places on women is never more clear than in Genesis 1:27, in which the scope of freedoms afforded the human race are shown. He considers both sexes equally important in creation, because of the viewpoints and individuality each of us has parts of male and female in us, and depending upon which happens to be stronger, that is the one in which will dominate and God makes us male or female. Both are equally important in creation (Genesis 2:21-23) and throughout life. I could not survive without my male friends, and they say they have a tough time surviving without me. Like recombinant DNA, femaleness is a part of man and maleness is a part of woman. Both come from each other (I Corinthians:11:3-16) and because genes that God uses to create living things, He was able to fashion woman by changing sequences, adding here, subtracting there to get female from male rib bone. Man and woman are not so different, only by blueprint, as a whole, yet immensely different individually as men differ from men individually. And in the hierarchy of earth yes women are indeed different from men, as men are different from other men and women are different from other women. Women are so different in that they approach things more emotionally than men. Paul uses the example of Eve being easily deceived (II Corinthians 11:3) by the serpent, that is by the serpent playing on the emotion of the situation, the high she got from thinking that yes indeed there was a way to be God, not just like Him but Him and have knowledge of the entire universe. And the passage goes on to explain that Adam was not deceived like Eve into transgression, although he certainly followed suit, perhaps out of avoidance of being alone. That is to be in sin and happy meant more than being right and lonely.
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