~Biblical Femininity Part 1- Created~

A friend of mine was going to do a study on masculinity and the biblical view of it. He asked if I would do one on femininity. And finally finding some time to do I shall do it today! :)

So dictionary.com define feminine as:

• pertaining to a woman or girl: feminine beauty; femininedress. 
• having qualities traditionally ascribed to women, as sensitivityor gentleness 
• effeminate; womanish: a man with a feminine walk. 
• belonging to the female sex; female: feminine staffmembers.
But it seems that in our culture that the woman are suppose to be tough, leaders and "man eater's". They are encouraged to not let men "walk all over them" so they don't.

Another characteristic of femininity is beauty. Beauty according to the world is barbie. Super skinny, covered in make up, tight clothes, oh and showing off skin that should be covered is a bonus! 

But that is way far fetched from the way the bible says a woman should be. Right from the start woman were different from men. Down to the very way they were created!

Genesis 2:18, 21-24 The LORD God said, “It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make a helper suitable for him.” 

So the LORD God caused the man to fall into a deep sleep; and while he was sleeping, he took one of the man’s ribs and then closed up the place with flesh.  Then the LORD God made a woman from the rib He had taken out of the man, and He brought her to the man.

 The man said,
   “This is now bone of my bones
   and flesh of my flesh;
she shall be called ‘woman,’
   for she was taken out of man.”
 That is why a man leaves his father and mother and is united to his wife, and they become one flesh.

Woman was created from man. Where as man God created from dust. Woman were created to be man's help meet not his hindrance. 


I will continue on this subject in a later post. Comments? Questions? I kinda jumped around there. Hope it made sense~