Bible Basics

Disrespect For Difference

Genesis 2:21-25 records how God took one of the ribs from the man and formed “a helper comparable to him.” In doing so, God not only made a woman but He made a wife for the man. “And Adam said: ‘This is now bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh; she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man.’ Therefore a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and they shall become one flesh” (v. 23, 24). The oneness of the marital union is clear. And while Eve was certainly “bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh” in a way to Adam that no other wife is to her husband, the principle of this divine union remains the same. God’s design of the woman as a mate for the man was exactly what the man needed. This is true anatomically and physically as well as emotionally and intellectually. God made man and woman different for a reason. In the past several decades there has been a push to make men and women the same. In an effort to give equal rights to women, a general disregard for the difference between men and women has become more and more prevalent. This disrespect for difference has impacted society in a number of ways, not the least of which is the disrespect of many for the woman’s role as wife and mother. The acceptance of same sex marriage is a case in point.

                                                                                                               -- Clark Dugger

Bible Basics