Cheryl Schatz

Don,

I think Galatians 4:7 answers your question because it is singular male.

Gal 4:7  Therefore you are no longer a slave, but a son; and if a son, then an heir through God.

In this verse it isn’t just child, but son.  It says “If a son…then an heir”.  This is vitally important because only sons were legal heirs.  In the OT one who is an heir is always male.  The wording specifically shows that all of the rights, privileges and honor also belong to women.  When Paul says there is no Jew or Greek, male and female, slave or free, he is referencing the full and complete rights of inheritance.  We, then, have no right to limit someone’s privileges of being used by God or being a mouthpiece of God because all are equally heirs.