What is it that, deep in the human psyche, rebels against women in roles of religious authority?
Only God knows, but one possibility is the story about the creation of man and woman in early chapters of the Book of Genesis. These are the key texts: • “So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them” (Genesis 1:27) • “Then the LORD God made a woman from the part he had taken out of the man, and he brought her to the man. The man said, “This is now bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh; she shall be called ‘woman,’ for she was taken out of man.” (Genesis 2:23) • “This is the written account of Adam’s line. When God created man, he made him in the likeness of God. He created them male and female and blessed them. And when they were created, he called them ‘man.'” (Genesis 5:1-2) The traditional understanding of these texts is that the “man” was male-only and the “woman” was female-only. However, consider the following: • Genesis 1:27 does not support the notion that “man” was either male or female. On the contrary, the text st
