And ELOHIYM said Let us
make 'âdâm in our image after our likeness [1] and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea and
over the fowl of the air and over the cattle and over all the earth and over
every creeping thing that creeps upon the earth So ELOHIYM created 'âdâm in his image in the image of ELOHIYM created he him male and female created
he them[2] Genesis 1:26-27
[1]
It is because of this unparalleled egalitarian statement, that complementarians are desperate to prove
that a hierarchal system exists within the Eternal God-head. Charles Stanley
wrote, that if no hierarchy exists within the God-head, then there is no basis
for the complementarian teaching of hierarchy
among humans based on gender.
The book, Trinity
Marriage and the Godhead, (Volume 1 of the God Women Ministry series)
examines and refutes the theory of hierarchy within the eternal Godhead.
[2] The great design and purpose of ELOHIYM
for his human creation is outlined, in detail, in Genesis chapter one. The name
He gave to them, 'Adam, is a Hebrew word (H120, and is pronounced audawm). In Genesis 1:26-28, we see that when ELOHIYM
said, “Let us make audawm in our
image…,” He was not referring to just the first male but rather to both His male and female creations.
Audawm, is the name ELOHIYM
gave to all humans—regardless of sex. Genesis 5:1-2 supports this, and
no subsequent action[s] by a fallen creation can change this. Both male and
female were created on the sixth day. And, at that time, there was only audawm, who were differentiated from one
another by being called 'iysh (the male 'adam) and 'ishshah (the female 'adam). Until the third chapter of Genesis, audawm was called nothing else but audawm, 'iysh, or 'Ishshah. So, when speaking or writing of their existence before
sin entered the world, it is incorrect to refer to the first woman as “Eve”.
There was no “Eve” before the Fall. ELOHIYM called 'Ishshah “audawm,” the same as
He did 'iysh. Understanding that before the Fall,
both 'Ishshah and 'iysh were called 'adam (audawm) Genesis 5:1-2, lays to rest the ludicrous argument that
gender hierarchy can be found in the creation account “because God called the
entire human race ‘man—not woman.’” As we see, God did not call the entire
human race “man.” He called them 'adam. Yet this outrageous
claim, that God called the human race man—not women, is made by some complementarian
[female subordination] teachers in laying the second block in a false
foundation for the gender-hierarchy—male headship—theory (the first being the
theory of hierarchy within the Godhead).
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