In His Image... HEIRS Together - David Jon Hill - May 1979

David Jon Hill

"In the beginning... God said, Let us make man in our image…in the image of God created he him, male and female created he them…heirs together of the grace of life…that as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God." God never intended there be any "battle of the sexes "God always considered men and women equally "in his image." But mankind - male and female has been responsible for many contradictions of God's intent. That's where our problems have come from. The ideal circumstances of the Garden of Eden provided equality before God of Adam and Eve, man and woman. Since mankind's expulsion from the Garden, circumstances have never provided the God-intended equality. A marked deterioration in every facet of life has ensued, varying in degree from generation to generation. The ideal woman, so artfully described in Proverbs 31, has probably never existed in an actual, living, case history. There is no counterpart chapter in the Bible to describe the ideal man, and obviously, even if there were, there would be no living example completely fulfilling that ideal, either. - Information Supplied By: Herbert W Armstrong Library