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Coralfish
Town Hall Judge
Joined: 17 Dec 2002
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Location: Southern Academia
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 Posted: Tue Mar 01, 2005 3:26 pm Post subject: |
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| rosie wrote: | | Jared wrote: |
As for "spiritually," I'm not sure I entirely understand the question. If I am to understand that it questions whether or not there are differences in understanding, faithfulness, etc., then no, absolutely not. If you refer to roles, then I would say that I believe that a pastor or deacon (or, by extension, an elder in such churches whose ruling body is a board of elders) should be a man, but that's an entirely separate issue that does not in any way arise from the spirituality of the genders. |
I mean if we die and are just spirits or something, is there still any difference? Or only spacific, individual differences between people? Did God make two different types of souls or just two different types of bodies?  Stupid question, I guess.... |
So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them. -Genesis 1:27
I think it is only reasonable to conclude that, as God created us a male and female, He intended for us to remain that way. After all, we see no addendum in Genesis where God makes the provision that Adam and Eve were only to remain male and female until death. Our gender is an extremely important part of who we are, not just a description or a particular set of traits. Likewise, our soul is also part of us and thus it would make sense that it has also been touched in some way by our gender.
Perhaps today, not enough weight is being given to this, and hence we see people taking such issues as gender without much consideration. Does it not make so much more sense that God intended us to be what we are and that for all eternity it is how we are to remain, in both body and soul? |
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Carolita
Hawaiian Yoda
Joined: 01 Mar 2003
Posts: 1151
Location: In the good ol' South
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| Posted: Tue Mar 01, 2005 4:35 pm Post subject: |
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| Coralfish wrote: |
So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them. -Genesis 1:27
I think it is only reasonable to conclude that, as God created us a male and female, He intended for us to remain that way. After all, we see no addendum in Genesis where God makes the provision that Adam and Eve were only to remain male and female until death. Our gender is an extremely important part of who we are, not just a description or a particular set of traits. Likewise, our soul is also part of us and thus it would make sense that it has also been touched in some way by our gender.
Perhaps today, not enough weight is being given to this, and hence we see people taking such issues as gender without much consideration. Does it not make so much more sense that God intended us to be what we are and that for all eternity it is how we are to remain, in both body and soul? |
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rosie
Inquisitive Member
Joined: 07 Jan 2003
Posts: 1197
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| Posted: Tue Mar 01, 2005 9:21 pm Post subject: |
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 I agree with you Coralfish. But I wonder HOW our souls are different? ....... (hides and tries not to be so inquisitive)  |
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