Divine Order

Old Testament

1 Corinthians 14:34The women are to keep silent in the churches; for they are not permitted to speak, but are to subject themselves, just as the Law also says.

Creation model

Genesis 1:27God created man in His own image, in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them.

Creation model

Genesis 2:8The Lord God planted a garden toward the east, in Eden; and there He placed the man whom He had formed.

Gen 2:15-25 (1 Tim 2:14; Gen 3:17) Gen 3:16-19

Creation model

1 Corinthians 11:3But I want you to understand that Christ is the head of every man, and the man is the head of a woman, and God is the head of Christ.

Creation model

1 Corinthians 11:8-9For man does not originate from woman, but woman from man; 9 for indeed man was not created for the woman's sake, but woman for the man's sake.

Gender roles OT

• Distinction in clothing (Deut 22:5)

• Laws concerning: purification, inheritance, vow making (Lev 12:1-8; Num 27:1-11; 36:1-12; Deut 25:5-10; Num 30)

• Virtuous woman (Prov 31:10-31)

Gender roles OT

• Pre-Mosaical Law example of Abraham, Sarah (Gen 18:6; 1 Pet 3:6)

• Man fined for injuring a woman with child (Exodus 21:22)

• Man and women put to death for adultery (Deut 22:22)

Gender roles OT

• Persian King Ahasuerus’ decree that “all wives will honor their husbands, both great & small” (Esther 1:20).

Gender roles OT - usurpers

• Miriam (Num 12:10)

• Jezebel (1 Kings 21:25)

• Athaliah (2 Kgs 11)

Gender roles OT - worship

• Men built altars & offered animal sacrifices (Gen 8:20; 12:7; 13:4, 18; 22:9; 26:25; Job 1:9)

– Hebrews 1:1 - God, who at sundry times and in divers manners spake in time past unto the fathers by the prophets,

Gender roles OT - worship

• Men were temple ministers (Levi and Aaron)

• Women sand in Temple chorus (Psalms 68:24-25; Ezra 2:64-65)

Gender roles OT - worship

• Miriam: prophetess (Exo 15:20)

• Deborah: judge (Jud 4:4)

• Huldah: prophetess (2 Kgs 22:11-20)

• Noadiah: false prophetess (Neh 6:14)

• Isaiah’s wife: prophetess (Isa 8:3)