Man and woman

There are two ways to be in the name of The Lord. One is to be like a thing worthy of praise – to be spoken for, if not married, by The Lord. The other one is to be righteous – to be a son to The Lord. Jesus Christ is our Lord in both respects: Jesus Christ was the Son of Man, and as such the meaning of man. And Jesus Christ is The Son of God.

Jesus Christ was all that is worth praise. And Jesus Christ is God’s justice – God’s love. In the Old Testament these two ways for man to be in is illustrated by the power of the sword and the force of the spear. Subjected to the sword one will feel being damned – as to be a thing with a destiny. And pointed at with the spear one will be explained – be validated. Women and men by nature think differently of their relationship with The Lord. The woman, being her, will be married by The Lord. And the man will be accepted as to be a son by The Lord.

Nature tells the difference between the two of us: Like earth in relation to heaven she will be married to be of worth in life. Her life a purpose her prime concern will be a certain need, and being in the name of The Lord she will bear and bring forth something missing in the world which is of The Lord. He, on the other hand, will be in authority by being a son to The Lord. He will be in the name of The Lord by announcing The Lord’s judgement, and he will exert The Lord’s influence by explaining The Lord and by keeping the Word of The Lord alive. He will be the head to her as The Lord is the head of the human being. In the story of the creation this is stated by the words “Unto the woman he [God] said, I will greatly multiply thy sorrow and thy conception; in sorrow thou shalt bring forth children; and thy desire shall be to thy husband, and he shall rule over thee.” (Genesis 3:16) She will be married by him. And to be like this; as if giving life to a concern of God, is painful. Still we are faithful knowing God is it who let us conceive: We will create works of God.

The Law states: “The woman shall not wear that which pertaineth unto a man, neither shall a man put on a woman's garment: for all that do so are abomination unto the LORD thy God.” (Deuteronomy 22:5) God created us man and woman. Women leading men make men boys. And men of no purpose to God are awful. The Law states: “He that is wounded in the stones, or hath his privy member cut off, shall not enter into the congregation of the LORD.” (Deuteronomy 23:1) And the Law states: “A bastard shall not enter into the congregation of the LORD; even to his tenth generation shall he not enter into the congregation of the LORD.” (Deuteronomy 23:2)

As for the women marrying again the Law states she should not be married by the priests - the sons of Aron: “They shall not take a wife that is a whore, or profane; neither shall they take a woman put away from her husband: for he is holy unto his God. Thou shalt sanctify him therefore; for he offereth the bread of thy God: he shall be holy unto thee: for I the LORD, which sanctify you, am holy.” (Leviticus 21:7-8)

In the story of the creation we learn that God made the man and the woman one before the man went to bed with her. The man and the woman together is man, and they are as such one from the moment of God creates her as of him. And so the Law states: “If a damsel that is a virgin be betrothed unto an husband, and a man find her in the city, and lie with her; Then ye shall bring them both out unto the gate of that city, and ye shall stone them with stones that they die; the damsel, because she cried not, being in the city; and the man, because he hath humbled his neighbour's wife: so thou shalt put away evil from among you. But if a man find a betrothed damsel in the field, and the man force her, and lie with her: then the man only that lay with her shall die. But unto the damsel thou shalt do nothing; there is in the damsel no sin worthy of death: for as when a man riseth against his neighbour, and slayeth him, even so is this matter: For he found her in the field, and the betrothed damsel cried, and there was none to save her.” (Deuteronomy 22:23-27)

The Law also states: “If a man find a damsel that is a virgin, which is not betrothed, and lay hold on her, and lie with her, and they be found; Then the man that lay with her shall give unto the damsel's father fifty shekels of silver, and she shall be his wife; because he hath humbled her, he may not put her away all his days.“ (Deuteronomy 22:28-29)

With regards to women’s authority Moses by the Law sanctioned men’s sovereignty over their women and women’s feelings of being women. And so the Law states: “Every vow, and every binding oath to afflict the soul, her husband may establish it, or her husband may make it void. But if her husband altogether hold his peace at her from day to day; then he establisheth all her vows, or all her bonds, which are upon her: he confirmeth them, because he held his peace at her in the day that he heard them. But if he shall any ways make them void after that he hath heard them; then he shall bear her iniquity.” (Numbers 30:13-15) To the woman not married this duty of the man belongs to the woman’s father.

Every single one of the commandments in the Law regarding man and woman in relation to one another is to be understood by these words from the story of the creation: “So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.” (Genesis 1:27) They were created as heart and mind.

Christ made man enter a new stage in his relationship with The Lord when Jesus appeared, and so the woman entered a new stage in her relationship with the man by Jesus. A new covenant was given. The Law was by no means annulled. But God let us have a new heart, a new orientation, so that instead of wanting to develop deeds and qualities by living by the Law we made the Son, Jesus Christ, ours by faith. Jesus said: “Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that believeth on me hath everlasting life.” (John 6:47)