The text for the sermon this morning is taken from the book of Genesis chapter 2, beginning with verse 18.

Then the Lord God said,

It is not good that the man should be alone.

I will make him a helper fit for him.

So out of the ground, the Lord God formed every beast of the field and every bird of the air and brought them to the man to see what he would call them.

And whatever the man called every living creature, that was its name. The man gave names to all cattle and to the birds of the air and to every beast of the field, but for the man there was not found a helper fit for him.

So the Lord God caused a deep sleep to fall upon the man.

And while he slept, he took one of his ribs and closed up its place with flesh.

And the rib which the Lord God had taken from the man he made into a woman and brought her to the man.

Then the man said,

this at last is bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh.

She shall be called woman because she was taken out of man.

Therefore a man leaves his face. because she was taken out of man.

Therefore, a man leaves his father and his mother

and cleaves to his wife, and they become one flesh.

And the man and his wife are both naked and were not ashamed.

Last week we ended with a question that went something like this, within the quality of personhood and the equality of dignity that man and woman have by virtue of their being created in God's image, might

there not be special responsibilities that

the belong to man because he is man and woman because she is woman.

Does equality of personhood and

of respect demand sameness of responsibilities

or even equal access to the same responsibilities?

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