May 18th - Afternoon | EQUALITY

Genesis 5:2
He created them male and female and blessed them. And when they were created, he called them "man".

Isn’t this interesting? Contrary to what most of the world grew up thinking, this verse shows the equality of man and woman as God’s creation. The only differences are the roles and the birth rights, which is why a male is called father and a female is called mother. The male is the root therefore the provider, and the female is the life giver. Author, poet and artist, John Ruskin said, “All that I have ever taught of art, everything that I have written, whatever greatness there has been in any thought of mine, whatever I have done in my life, has simply been due to the fact that, when I was a child, my mother daily read with me a part of the Bible, and daily made me learn a part of it by heart.” Man should respect woman as equals. After all, that’s how God intended it to be.