Part 5 of a Women in Leadership Training Workshop showing how God's vision for a new creation shapes the way we approach and interpret the Scriptures.

1. Participating in the
New Creation

2. 26 Then God said, “Let us make the human in our
image, after our likeness. And let them have
dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds
of the heavens and over the livestock and over all
the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps
on the earth.” 27 So God created the human in his
own image, in the image of God he created him;
male and female he created them. 28 And God
blessed them. And God said to them, “Be fruitful
and multiply and fill the earth and subdue it, and
have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the
birds of the heavens and over every living thing that
moves on the earth.”
Genesis 1:26-28

3. God created men and women for co-ruling.
Genesis 1:26-28

4. 18 And the LORD God said, “It is not good that The
Human should be alone; I will make him a helper
comparable to him.” 19 Out of the ground
the LORD God formed every beast of the field and
every bird of the air, and brought them to The
Human to see what he would call them. And
whatever The Human called each living creature,
that was its name. 20 So The Human gave names
to all cattle, to the birds of the air, and to every
beast of the field. But for The Human there was
not found a helper comparable to him.
Genesis 2:18-20

5. HELPER
EZER
Hebrew Scriptures Greek Septuagint
Exodus 18:4
Duet. 33:7,26,29
Psalm 20:2
Psalm 33:20
Psalm 70:5
Psalm 89:19
Psalm 115:9-11
Psalm 121:1-2
Psalm 124:8
BOE THEO
DESPERATE
CRY
TO RUN
RESCUER
Genesis 2:18-20

6. Our soul waits for the LORD;
He is our help and our shield.
Psalm 33:20

7. COMPARABLE
KENEGDO
COUNTERPART
Genesis 2:18-20
Hebrew Scriptures Greek Septuagint
HOMOIO
SIMILAR
LIKENESS
KENEGDO
COORESPONDING

8. 21 And the LORD God caused a deep sleep to fall
on Adam, and he slept; and He took one of his
ribs, and closed up the flesh in its place. 22 Then
the rib which the LORD God had taken from man
He made into a woman, and He brought her to
the man. 23 And Adam said: “This is now bone of
my bones and flesh of my flesh; she shall be
called Woman, because she was taken out
of Man.” 24 Therefore a man shall leave his father
and mother and be joined to his wife, and they
shall become one flesh..
Genesis 2:21-24

9. Genesis 2:18-25
Man is the source of the woman, but he is not
superior to her.

10. To the woman He said: “I will
greatly multiply your sorrow and
your conception; In pain you shall
bring forth children; Your
desire shall be for your husband,
and he shall rule over you.”
Genesis 3:16

11. God said to man, “The earth will bring forth thistles.” Man
replied, “I’ll weed them out. I’ll develop weed killers and make
my garden a paradise.”
God said to man, “You will work by the sweat of your
brow.” Man replied, “I’ll invent tools that will make my work
easier: the plow, the hoe, the tiller and the John Deere tractor.”
God said to woman, “You will have pain in childbirth.” Man
responded, “Yea, so be it, let her suffer so my quiver can be full.
It is God’s will. My work was made hard because of her.”
God said to woman, “Your husband will rule over you.” Man
responded, “Of course that’s the way it should be. I am to be her
master. I was created first.”
And woman bowed her head and said, “I am indeed under a
curse.” ~ Carmen Bryant

12. Genesis 3:16
God’s words to Eve are descriptive, not prescriptive.

13. Complementarianism Christian Feminism Egalitarianism
God wants men to
rule over women
God wants women
to rule over men.
God wants men and
women to co-rule.
THREE VIEWS

15. JESUS
The Pharisees also came to Him, testing Him, and saying to Him, “Is
it lawful for a man to divorce his wife for just any reason?” And He
answered and said to them, “Have you not read that He who
made them at the beginning ‘made them male and female,’ and
said, ‘For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and be
joined to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh’? So then,
they are no longer two but one flesh. Therefore what God has joined
together, let not man separate.” They said to Him, “Why then did
Moses command to give a certificate of divorce, and to put her
away?” He said to them, “Moses, because of the hardness of your
hearts, permitted you to divorce your wives, but from the beginning
it was not so.”
Matthew 19:3-8

16. Matthew 19:1-8
“From the beginning it was not so...”

17. NEW CREATION
CHRIST IS
RESTORING AND RENEWING
THE ORIGINAL CREATION

18. EX: PRIESTHOOD
“Now take Aaron your brother, and his
sons with him, from among the children
of Israel, that he may minister to Me
as priest, Aaron and Aaron’s
sons: Nadab, Abihu, Eleazar, and
Ithamar.” Exodus 28:1

19. PRIESTHOOD
“To Him who loved us and washed us from
our sins in His own blood, and has made
us kings and priests to His God and Father, to
Him be glory and dominion forever and ever.
Amen.” Revelation 1:5-6

20. NEW CREATION

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