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Forgetting the universally accepted general statistical differences in ability in such areas as physical strength and intelligence acknowledge by the social sciences, does the Bible indicate that men and women are equal in their flesh, in their existence in this world.

No, the Holy Bible indicates that men and women are unequal in terms of ability, stature, and authority and also to be noted responsibility. God and man does make distinctions according to human beings based on Gender and it is readily observable in the Holy Bible.

In John 6:2 Jesus says, “A woman when she is in travail hath sorrow, because her hour is come: but as soon as she is delivered of the child, she remembereth no more the anguish, for joy that a man is born into the world. ”

Again a correctly translated Bible infers exactly as it reads that the portion of John 6:2 stating “... that a man is born into the world.” refers to man as “a male born child”, the male gender of humanity as opposed to the female gender. It proceeds if from nothing else from a knowledge on the part of Jesus, as being the son of God in both his humanity and his spirit as fully man and fully God, as he was and is second to none in humanity in his knowledge in his time on earth. Thereby, clearly Jesus understands the fundamental importance in which God's image functions within humanity. The joy which Jesus alludes to extends from the fact that from the beginning before original sin, God created man perfectly in his perfect design as a good creation in God's Image whereby he blessed man giving him dominion over all the earth, and making man the focal point of this worlds creation which at that time was simultaneously also perfect and good as described in Genesis 1:21 & 25 - “... and God saw that it was good.”

The joy of such creation of an image bearer of God is alluded to by Jesus, because man in Adam was a replication of God in his image created by God as the apex of God's work in the creation of this world just as a God himself is the apex of all existence because a Holy God is not arbitrary, but God is in-fact definitive, all encompassing, and found to be symbolic in his works through his divine and supreme omniscience and eternal in-transience.

One sees that Jesus, being the last Adam and fully God in his person, notes not arbitrarily in a metaphor in John 6:21 as he was conveying how his death on the cross and his absence in death from his disciples before being resurrected in glory related to that of the labor of child birth and then the eventual joy of delivering a male child, a further continuance of God's Image being imparted into the world. For just as in the beginning when humanity was created perfectly in joy in Adam the 1^st man being created in the image of God and without sin or imperfection, so too is their great joy in the resurrection of the last Adam, Jesus Christ, in whom all humanity which is acceptable and will be found acceptable to God, is and will be reconciled to him once again in perfection for all time.

Jesus is not saying that there is no joy in the birth of a baby daughter in John 6:21. What it would seem he is saying is that God's creation will once again be made perfect in him just as it was when God originally created Adam and there is great joy in that just as their was in the beginning of creation. The male gender is the construction mode of this. That is where the reference to the birth of a male child comes from. Implicit in all this is that, in order for this metaphor to hold Jesus must be consistent with Genesis, for just as God the Father is not arbitrary in his words neither is God in the person of his son, Jesus, arbitrary. It is that it is in Jesus Christ's reference to a male born baby in this metaphor that implicitly man in the male gender must be the made in the image of God and not the woman as it is in the Image of God that according to the body humanity was first blessed, and was in closest union in the Garden of Eden with God in Adam, the first man having been created in God's image by God. In the reconciliation of Jesus Christ, this would be the same great joy that does and will once again reverberate in Messiah where and when all things by him are made new both in the dichotomy of this world in which the kingdom of heaven is being established in the midst of a separate world of brokenness and of a sin, and in the world that is to come. And this is ultimately what is being referenced which is the great joy of those beings which are joined to him in a new heaven and a new earth. As magnificent as these statements are, also implicit in it's reasoning and contained in John 6:2 itself, is that the major distinction between the male and female gender of the human being is that the man and the man alone in Adam was made in the image of God.