Christ-O-Centric Study
Man and Woman Relationship
by
Dr. Steven B. Davidson Section 1
Literature: Because You Listened to the Voice of Your Wife (Gen. 3:17). You can print the article from the Advent II web site, or request it via email in Word format.
Continuing Education Unit: This course may be completed to satisfy a NAIIIC counselor's annual training requirement. The study can also be completed for Christian life or personal development.
Sections: Excluding the last section, the course is divided into 2 sections of approximately 50 questions each. It is not necessary to complete both sections in one setting. However, you must complete a section before submitting your work. DO NOT submit a section that is partially complete.
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Introduction
1. Who is introduced first in the Genesis narrative?
2. Was woman created as an after thought? If not, what does Gen. 1:27 and Gen 5:2 state?
3. Were animals equal with Adam and Eve (see Gen. 2:18-20)?
4. After eating the fruit, God makes a statement to the woman. How does he statement show that before sin she was equal to man? (See Gen. 3:16)
5. What does the woman lose as the result of sin?
Answer questions 7 - 13 with a simple yes or no.
7. Do Christians work and labor for a living? Yes, No
8. Do Christians die and return to dust Yes, No
9. Do Christian women bear children in pain? Yes, No
10 Is there great "enmity" between Christ and Satan? Yes, No
11. Do Christians sin? Yes, No
12. Did John say, "If we say that we have no sin, we are deceiving ourselves, and the truth is not in us" Yes, No (See I John 1:8)
13. Would you say that all of mankind, saved and unsaved are living the consequences pronounced upon Adam, Eve, and the serpent? Yes, No
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14. As a result of being "saved" are provisions made for our sins? If so what Scripture supports your answer?
15. If God's proclamation of woman's desire toward mand, and mans rulership over woman still in force?
16. Relative to their position in Christ is man equal to woman? If so, give the Scriptural support for your answer.
17. Are there persons who argue that God has placed the responsibility for the Christian movement in the hands of men first and women secondarily?
18. Have women always had a central position in God's revelation to mankind? If so, give some Biblical examples of women and their accomplishments?
19. Are there persons who believe that women should be pastors, preachers, heads of households?
20. Are there any specific Biblical principles, which discuss when, where, or how women operate as "heads" ?
Consider the following questions in series:
21. Who was introduced in creation first, Adam or Eve?
22. Where did Eve come from?
23. What does the name ishah mean?
24. Did God create the man and woman by coincidence?
25. Is Satan a strategiest who knows how to attack man?
26. Was Eve more vulnerable than Adam?
27. Who was deceived Adam or Eve?
28. What was Adam's act of idolatry concerning Eve?
29. Although the curse on the man-woman relationship in Gen. 3:15 is in place, is their any Biblical evidence to support that man is superior?
30. The relationship between men and woman is an issue of ____________ and _____________
31. In the Hebrew language what is the word for "create"?
32. In the Hebrew what is the word for "make"?
33. What does Bara indicate?
34. What does Asah indicate?
35. Man is created from spiritual and made of _______________
36. What kind of materials did God make man from?
37. What is the Hebrew word used for woman's introduction into creation?
38. Who was she "built" for?
39. The woman is described as a helper in Gen. 2:20. What was the Hebrew word for helper?
40. Prior to Adam's sin what does the word mean? Give a Scriptural example of the word helper or help?
41. What was her purpose and position in the beginning?
42. Given civil rights and feminist movements, did concerns about the relationship between men and women arise since these movements began? Explain.
43. Why are Paul's writings concerning men and women often ridiculed?
44. What does Paul consider as the paradigm (guiding principles) for the man-woman relationship?
45. Paul's instructions from God is that the man is the head of woman. Give three reasons from I Cor. 11:7-9.
46. Although we are new "in-Christ" and equal as he views us, Give two reasons from I Tim. 2:13-14 why men are to be heads?
47. Since man is the head, is man independent of woman? (See I Cor. 11:11-2)
48. Does Peter support what God has directed Paul to write? Explain.
49. Read I Pet. 3:8. Does this mean that the women is a weaker vessel?
50. Whose example did Paul and Peter follow concerning the man-woman relationship?
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