Undeniable #7-Biology Affirms What the Bible Teaches

Over 2 decades ago, Time Magazine featured a cover asking, “Why Are Men and Women Different?” The featured subtitle was, “It isn’t just upbringing. New studies show they are born that way.”

For many of us, our immediate thought was, “Duh” or “Ya think?” Because we know the Undeniable Truth of Womanhood #7: Biology Affirms What the Bible Teaches. Men and women are different because even though (together) we complete one species, we were two separate creative acts of God. Adam was created first from the dust of the earth and then, Eve was built from him. That’s what the Bible teaches.

Why? Because it was important for redemptive history.

It’s why it took both Adam and Eve’s eating from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil for their eyes to be opened. In the scope of redemptive history, if Eve hadn’t come from Adam, then Christ’s forgiveness wouldn’t extend to women, too. I’m ok with Eve being made from Adam since I want to share in the grace of Christ for salvation like all Adam’s descendants do.

Yes, I’m a Creationist. And I believe the rest of the Bible too. Women and men are not exactly alike and a woman’s identity, her womanhood, flows from having been built from man. She’s Adam’s perfect complement. Together, we make a perfect pair.

wheres waldo I sometimes marvel at the level of coincidence one must acknowledge when adhering to the idea of man’s ORIGIN from evolution alone.

Women know how hard it is to find a good man even knowing what to look for, in a confined space like earth. Let’s say you had the whole universe to search for someone who was your suitable reproductive mate among all the primates, especially one to produce offspring. It’d take even longer.

It’d be like “Where’s Waldo?” on steroids and without a hat to help you find the guy.

For me, the hardest thing for evolutionists to overlook is the idea of male and female in both the Animal Kingdom and Plant Kingdom. In this graphic (below) just imagine how miraculous it is that each of these life forms have male and female. Did they start male and female, evolving lions and peacocks (for example) from both sex branches? There is no third sex, fourth sex, or undeclared in the bunch. Why would evolution settle in on only two sexes for reproduction? To me, this is the biggest stumbling block evolutionists must answer before I would even think of questioning the simplest solution: God made them that way. Biology affirms this.

Research:

BIOLOGYrt Genesis 1:20 And God said, “Let the water teem with living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth across the expanse of the sky.” 21 So God created the great creatures of the sea and every living and moving thing with which the water teems, according to their kinds, and every winged bird according to its kind. And God saw that it was good. 22 God blessed them and said, “Be fruitful and increase in number and fill the water in the seas, and let the birds increase on the earth.” 23 And there was evening, and there was morning– the fifth day. 24 And God said, “Let the land produce living creatures according to their kinds: livestock, creatures that move along the ground, and wild animals, each according to its kind.” And it was so. 25 God made the wild animals according to their kinds, the livestock according to their kinds, and all the creatures that move along the ground according to their kinds. And God saw that it was good. 26 Then God said, “Let us make man in our image, in our likeness, and let them rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air, over the livestock, over all the earth, and over all the creatures that move along the ground.” (italics added)

Reflect:

When God created Adam and Eve, He made them to be image bearers and to rule. When He blessed them, He said, “Be fruitful and increase in number; fill the earth and subdue it. Rule over.” (Genesis 1:27-28) In the rest of the Animal Kingdom, does the male or female hunt and gather, or do both do it?
What about humanity causes us to desire to rule over each other?
How does biology affirm what the Bible teaches about “each according to their kinds” ?
How does biology affirm what the Bible teaches about men and women with respect to the rest of the created order (environment)?
In creating male and female, in what ways did God divide up the responsibilities for reproductive seasons? Which one bears the offspring? In which one does fertilization occur, even in the Plant Kingdom? In the Animal Kingdom, which one sits on the nest, creates the den, lays the eggs, or births and nurses the offspring?
For those females not in reproductive seasons, such as celibate singles, girls, and women past child-bearing years, what parts of the blessing ought women to use in bearing God’s image?

Respond:

Are you a man? In Genesis 3:20 we read, “Now the man called his wife’s name Eve, because she was the mother of all the living.” Adam named his wife after the fall of man and before she was pregnant with Cain, their firstborn. In households of husbands and wives, it is perfectly appropriate for men to assume a greater share of the “rule and subdue” part of God’s blessing of the one-flesh-team while the mother of children focuses on the “be fruitful and multiply” part. What might this indicate about God’s view of single motherhood, “baby mamas,” and the rise in America of the disappearing father? How ought this change your behavior toward women? How might biology affirm that families need fathers, too, in order to have children who bear God’s image to the fullest human extent possible? How does an engaged father on earth prepare our hearts for seeing our Father in heaven? If you need to change something, now’s the time.

Are you a woman? Bearing offspring is a blessing not a curse. Therefore, it’s perfectly appropriate for women to embrace their season as mothers, as singles, and as post-childbearing women. It doesn’t mean “use it or lose it” when it comes to the ruling and subduing part of the blessing. See your life as a series of seasons in which you multiply God’s image in different ways.

Are you a pastor? Teach men to be men and to accept responsibility for their offspring. Allow women to be women in all those varying seasons which our reproductive years present. Herding women into the nursery or the women’s ministry for praying for husbands is not helpful to women who have neither children nor a husband. See them as full image bearers of God, armed with the Word to be fruitful in other ways, to multiply God’s image through teaching, preaching, and evangelism… and encourage them to be fully functioning ministers of God in the Church and in their workplaces. God never withdrew the blessing from women and we should not either.

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Ten Undeniable Truths of Womanhood:

A Christian woman is still a complete woman, even without marriage.
No man can teach a woman what is the truth of womanhood, even Christian womanhood.
The Bible clearly outlines what womanhood is…and it isn’t always synonymous with motherhood.
Once a mother, always a mother.
Superwomen don’t exist except in the comics.
All women make choices of no return.
Biology affirms what the Bible teaches.
The Christian woman must learn to artfully balance following Christ while honoring the men in her life.
Submission and sacrifice aren’t bad words for women.
The Lord’s maidservants bring glory to Christ by their obedience.