Are women created in God's image?

[YYZ Skinhead]

No, according to this article: http://www.cuttingedge.org/NEWS/n1841.cfm

Scroll down to RIGHT ABOVE where it says "God As 'Mother Nature'".

[Vic]

(01-19-2010 01:35 PM)YYZ Skinhead Wrote:  No, according to this article: http://www.cuttingedge.org/NEWS/n1841.cfm

Scroll down to RIGHT ABOVE where it says "God As 'Mother Nature'".

I think the Scriptures suggest yes:

Gen 1:26 And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: 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 creepeth upon the earth.
Gen 1:27 So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.
Gen 1:28 And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth.

So God created >man > H120
אדם
'âdâm
BDB Definition:
1) man, mankind
1a) man, human being
1b) man, mankind (much more frequently intended sense in OT)
1c) Adam, first man
1d) city in Jordan valley
Part of Speech: noun masculine
A Related Word by BDB/Strong’s Number: from H119

Strongs > man> H120
אדם
'âdâm
aw-dawm'
From H119; ruddy, that is, a human being (an individual or the species, mankind, etc.): - X another, + hypocrite, + common sort, X low, man (mean, of low degree), person.

Mankind was created in God's image. Mankind includes men and women.

[YYZ Skinhead]

(01-20-2010 04:41 PM)Vic Wrote:  

(01-19-2010 01:35 PM)YYZ Skinhead Wrote:  No, according to this article: http://www.cuttingedge.org/NEWS/n1841.cfm

Scroll down to RIGHT ABOVE where it says "God As 'Mother Nature'".

I think the Scriptures suggest yes:

Gen 1:26 And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: 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 creepeth upon the earth.
Gen 1:27 So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.
Gen 1:28 And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth.

So God created >man > H120
אדם
'âdâm
BDB Definition:
1) man, mankind
1a) man, human being
1b) man, mankind (much more frequently intended sense in OT)
1c) Adam, first man
1d) city in Jordan valley
Part of Speech: noun masculine
A Related Word by BDB/Strong’s Number: from H119

Strongs > man> H120
אדם
'âdâm
aw-dawm'
From H119; ruddy, that is, a human being (an individual or the species, mankind, etc.): - X another, + hypocrite, + common sort, X low, man (mean, of low degree), person.

Mankind was created in God's image. Mankind includes men and women.

Since Genesis 1:26-28 explicitly says that "male and female created He them", and Gen 5:1-2 "This [is] the book of the generations of Adam. In the day that God created man, in the likeness of God made he him; Male and female created he them; and blessed them, and called their name Adam, in the day when they were created" says the same thing--that in this context the term Man/Adam is the species name and includes both genders--one wonders where Cutting Edge got the idea that only males were created in God's image.

[Scotchman]

In short, Not exactly. First off, remember that Strongs Lexicon is based upon MAN's definitions and sometimes is wrong. It is based upon usage more than actual meaning. In the context of the beginning, it would be referring to the first man ADAM that was LITERALLY created by God and breathed first into Him. Woman was not a direct creation of God but rather an aside taken from Man and therefore is in the image of Man.

Even was in the image of God as much as we are, as a secondary copy. But there was only one original. In this sense, I do not believe that we are created in God's image but rather are in the image of our parents.

Genesis 1:27 could be implying this very thing. That God created them both but Adam was the actual Image. Gen 2:23 then expands on why the first verse seems repetitive. Showing by context that it is actually expanding the issue that God made Adam like himself and Woman was made like Adam, to be His help-meet.

It is also why Women are not blamed for the Fall and for Sin but Adam Alone is to blame.

Gen 5:3 shows that we, Adams descendants, are counted as being in Adams image.

The real question is this; "What IS the image of God". And why would it apply to Adam, but not his wife or offspring?

Keep in mind, it does not mean that we are not, in some way, still in God's image. We are copies of the original and therefore possess part of what that meant.

But ONLY ADAM was CREATED in the Image of God!

Consider this verse,
1 Corinthians 11:7 For a man indeed ought not to cover his head, forasmuch as he is the image and glory of God: but the woman is the glory of the man

[Vic]

I don't believe the issue is that complicated.

As I pasted in before, I think the Scriptures suggest yes, because adam in this context is referring to mankind which was defined within the verses as being male and female. If it only referred to a male, then the female would not have been included in that verse that God inspired to be written like that:

Gen 1:26 And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: 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 creepeth upon the earth.
Gen 1:27 So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.
Gen 1:28 And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth.

Further, we know how adam was called 'earthy' when newly created and we are made a copy of the natural body of that creation, but because sin entered in and changed their purpose and sinlessness-it changed everything. Eve was also created by God. Adam was out of dirt, Eve out of his rib. But God still created both in a pre sin way. God created Eve as a partner to Adam. They literally were made for each other.

Eve was also blamed for the fall because she was deceived and Adam chose to listen to her deception and deliberately sinned, and it is said also that sin entered through Adam....both were responsible to obey or disobey God. And both faced the consequences of that disobedience.

1Ti 2:13 For Adam was first formed, then Eve.
14 And Adam was not deceived, but the woman being deceived was in the transgression.
15 Notwithstanding she shall be saved in childbearing, if they continue in faith and charity and holiness with sobriety.

Rom 5:14 Nevertheless death reigned from Adam to Moses, even over them that had not sinned after the similitude of Adam's transgression, who is the figure of him that was to come.

Meaning adam the male/man was the figure of Christ who was to come...as a man.

1Co 15:21 For since by man came death, by man came also the resurrection of the dead.
1Co 15:22 For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ shall all be made alive.

1 Corinthians 15:44-49 It is sown a natural body; it is raised a spiritual body. There is a natural body, and there is a spiritual body. 45. And so it is written, The first man Adam was made a living soul; the last Adam was made a quickening spirit. 46. Howbeit that was not first which is spiritual, but that which is natural; and afterward that which is spiritual. 47. The first man is of the earth, earthy: the second man is the Lord from heaven. 48. As is the earthy, such are they also that are earthy: and as is the heavenly, such are they also that are heavenly. 49. And as we have borne the image of the earthy, we shall also bear the image of the heavenly.

Yes, God's purpose for Eve was to be a helpmeet to Adam, and as Adam called her,

Genesis 2:22-25 And the rib, which the LORD God had taken from man, made he a woman, and brought her unto the man. 23. And Adam said, This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh: she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man. 24. Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh. 25. And they were both naked, the man and his wife, and were not ashamed.

It is the perfect example of the relationship a husband and wife are to have. Which people tend to destroy.

[Ekklesia]

Male and female He created them ....
... And they shall be ONE flesh ...

The bible treats the word ONE as indivisible. Accordingly, the smallest atomic unit in the bible is not man or women (as individuals), but man and women together, created as one.

It is our individualistic culture that skews our vision, and removes our focus from family onto the individual. The bible predicted this however [2 Tim 3:4] when it speaks of us being swollen with conceit ( which is self centered and individualistic ).