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Continued Investigation of the Image of God according to the Holy Bible.

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 Also, to further the weight of the evidence and to strike the same note again of a prior argument, just observation alone of the natural world, from nature, and as human nature itself instructs us, that there is distinction in gender. There is distinction in the man and in the woman in humanity. From this there is evidence aside from the Holy Bible itself other historical resources which reason that Man and Woman are not both image bearer's of God. From an impartial observer we have as much in Aristotle in his Book 4 on the History of Animals, Chapter 1 page 608b lines 4-16 concerning the nature of Gender in what Aristotle might term the “human animal.”

... the female is softer in disposition than the male, is more mischievous, less simple, more impulsive, and more attentive to the nurture of the young, the male, on the other hand, is more spirited than the female, more savage, more simple and less cunning. The traces of these differentiated characteristics are more or less visible everywhere, but they are especially visible where character is the more developed, and most of all in man.

The fact is, the nature of man is the most rounded off and complete, and consequently in man the qualities or capacities above referred to are found in their perfection. Hence woman is more compassionate than man, more easily moved to tears, at the same time is more jealous, more querulous, more apt to scold and to strike. She is , furthermore, more prone to despondency and less hopeful than the man, more void of shame or self-respect, more false of speech, more deceptive, and of more retentive memory. She is also more wakeful, more shrinking, more difficult to rouse to action, and requires a smaller quantity of nutriment.

As was previously stated, the male is more courageous than the female, and more sympathetic in the way of standing by to help.”

Again, this point is taken from observation of the natural world distinct from ancient Semitic history and non-Biblical in nature. Aristotle, Hellenistic Gentile though he was, is not entirely a separate entity from Biblical providence, and he is certainly not separate from God's sovereignty. God brought up a line of succession of philosophers in Ancient Greece which culminates in Aristotle who proceeds from a philosophical line of succession which runs the course of Plato, Socrates, and Parmenides. And not absent of God's providence because it seems God must have had his hand upon the Hellenistic world before the coming of Jesus Christ. It can be seen in Aristotle in which Aristotle's work and tutelage is somewhat likely to have at least availed as a resource of knowledge if not of some effect upon Alexander of Macedonia that God in his Providence might accomplish that which he foretold Daniel through the Angel in the time of roughly mid 500 B.C. in Daniel 8, Daniel 8:4-8 & 8:21-22. Aristotle can also be seen in God's providence, in preparing the Hellenistic world in advancing its capacity for rhetoric and reasoning to an adeptly high level so that the Hellenistic Gentiles might look be looking for God by means of Logical deduction in philosophy (Neo-Platonism, etc.) and that many of them might receive the coming Messiah through the spirit and aided by reasoning some 500 plus years later (1 Corinthians 1:22) through in no small degree the missionary work of the Apostle Paul, God's chosen vessel to the Gentile word, and other missionaries who exhorted the Gospel of Jesus Christ. (Acts 9:15)


Daniel8:21-22 -

And the rough goat is the king of Grecia: and the great horn that is between his eyes is the first king. Now that being broken, whereas four stood up for it, four kingdoms shall stand up out of the nation, but not in his power.”

 

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