Pastor John, if you're up for it, give us a theology of biblical womanhood in five minutes.

I would start with where God starts in Genesis 1 where he says that God created man, male

and female.

In the image of God, he created them, not just the man.

So I would start with the massive and immeasurably massive truth that men and women, and we're

talking about women here, are created in the image of the creator of the universe.

This is simply stunning.

It means that every woman you look at on the street or every woman you relate to in

any way is a potential queen of heaven because she's created in the inago day.

She's in the image of God in the same way that the man is in the image of God having a human

nature which mirrors the very nature of God.

That's where I start.

Secondly, I would draw attention to the fact that her worth, therefore, when you talk in terms

of dignity or worth, is the same as man.

In fact, I would say both male and female are essential to the full revelation of God's glory.

He didn't just create man when you get to the second part of the story where man is created

first, which I think is significant, and then woman is created.

It says it wasn't good.

It just wasn't finished.

It wasn't good until this woman who came from his side, no animal would do because no animal

was created in the image of God.

She must be his nature and thus of the nature of God.

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