Value of Men and Women

Men and Women are of equal value

Satan doesn’t limit his deception regarding values and roles to marriage. He extends it into the society at large. He twists God’s clear and perfect principles regarding manhood and womanhood into a tangled self-contradictory web of deception, all for the purpose of furthering his kingdom and attempting to diminish the kingdom of God.

Satan sows discord through false laws that either deny that men and women are of equal value or distort the meaning of “equal.” We’ll look at them in turn, beginning with false laws that deny that men and women are of equal value. Based on God’s template, they are easy to produce. A simple reversal of the law produces “Men and women aren’t of equal value.” From that we get two obvious possibilities (an example of Satan not being bound by a coherent non-contradictory unity of law). One is that men are worth more than women. The other is the reverse, that women are worth more than men. Satan uses both.

The false moral law that men are worth more than women has been dominant through most of history. Holding positions of power in society and being physical stronger than women, men have been able to dominate, control, and in many cases tyrannize the fairer sex. In most cases no excuse has been needed for such abuse–it’s been a matter of “might makes right.” In other cases religious and other justifications have been fabricated–maltreatment of women by Muslims is an example.

It’s also been falsely claimed that Biblical patriarchy condones the domination of women by men, both within and without marriage. Some have used that claim as a warrant to abuse women. Others have used it as a warrant to condemn the Bible as misogynistic. Both are lies. As we’ve seen with Adam, husbands, and elders, Biblical patriarchy is the hierarchical assignment of authority to men for God’s righteous purposes, not a declaration of value vis-à-vis men and women. That authority is to be wielded selflessly, out of with love.

The opposite, the false law that women are worth more than men, is largely a modern lie, an outworking of radical feminism. Feminism, in the sense of a political movement, purported to resist and reform the historical wrongful “patriarchal” treatment of women by men. For some it has progressed into utter distain for the male gender–separatist feminist’s assert that men can’t be reformed and call for women to separate themselves from men.

I’ve stated God’s law as declaring men and women of equal value because we’re looking at manhood and womanhood. Implicit is the understanding that God values all humans equally (Gal. 3:28). Using deception and a redefinition of terms Satan crafts a third, less obvious rejection of the law. It’s that both men and women are inferior to a third group. That third group is androgynes. In this sense androgyny includes homosexual, bisexual, and transgender individuals.

In all these cases there’s a perceived blending, within a single individual, of male and female characteristics into a higher level unity–a Satanic perversion of God’s joining of husband and wife as one. Such androgynous persons are said to be more spiritual than normal heterosexual men and women.

As part of Satan’s push to promote sexual deviancy the false moral law that androgynes are of greater value than normal males and females is gaining traction within our society. It’s part of the reason we are seeing homosexuals, bisexuals and transgender individuals celebrated and lifted up today as celebrities and special people.

This isn’t new. Peter Jones, in “Androgyny: The Pagan Sexual Ideal,”¹ he shows that the false link between androgyny and spirituality goes back to ancient times and is tightly linked to paganism. Satan’s promotion of sexual deviancy today is in part linked to his promotion of paganism.