Holly

If women don’t reflect the image and glory of God, then how would a teacher like MacArthur explain the fact that ALL believers are being conformed to Christ’s image? – “For those God foreknew he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son” (Romans 8:29). Am I supposed to believe that this doesn’t apply to women? Are women somehow going to bear his image less in the new creation? Are women somehow “less” of a light in the world, despite the fact that women are filled with the Holy Spirit just as men are? Isn’t the whole point of the sanctification of the Spirit in believers to conform us to Christ’s image? Holy Spirit filled = reflecting God’s glory. And it would make absolutely no sense to suggest that women reflect this glory less, or somehow do so indirectly.

I’m getting sick of degrading views like MacArthur’s. Nothing else damages my faith more than teachings like this.