In Genesis 1 man is made in God’s image – ‘male and female he
created them’. Not man, or woman, alone as
the image, but male and female together were the image. Together, as equals,
they were to multiply, fill the earth and rule over it – in the image of God.
In Genesis 2 we are told that man and woman were to become ‘one flesh’.
This was in the ideal world. In chapter 3 it all went wrong.
Jesus came to restore in us the image of the Divine, to
return us to the ideal. In Galatians 3:28 Paul says ‘There is
no longer Jew or Gentile, slave or free, male and female. For you are all one
in Christ Jesus.’ In other words the divisions and inequalities brought
about by the fall are done away with. Humanity is restored to its ideal.
I wonder what all this means within the
context of female ordination. Did the restoration of the ideal happen at
Calvary, or is it something that is still to come? Should the Church today
continue to model the consequences of the fall or the future ideal? Or,
perhaps, we are in some half way house.
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