Women's Role

[Evangelical]

Originally Posted by countmeworthy

Brother Evangelical!
Women were an afterthought??? Really? We were not originally in God's plan for mankind??? until God saw that the animals alone were not enough for Adam??

So... the Bride of Christ was an afterthought? And God did not really know us and choose us women before the foundation of the world?

No one is arguing God created Adam first.

In eternity past of course women were part of God's plan.

However in time, in the creation account of Genesis, God created the man, God created the animals, and then God realized man needed a helper so He created woman. The classical Sunday school account usually mentions how lonely Adam was and how he couldn't find a suitable helper in the animals.
It all sounds very much like an afterthought from our perspective. Of course God being all-knowing , had a plan all along.

The one argument that destroys the feminist ideas is that Paul states that woman was not created for woman's sake but woman for man's sake:

“man was not created for woman’s sake, but woman for the man’s sake” (1 Cor. 11:9).

God created women to be companions for man, not to be man's leaders.