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“the creation order of male headship”

To me, this is a nonsensical statement. It assumes one thing, “male headship”, naturally flows from the other, “creation order” without a shred of scriptural teaching for support. “Headship”, male or otherwise, is not even an implied topic in the creation account despite the rather mundane fact that there is an order that things were created in. Nowhere in the creation narrative does God ever equate the creation order with any kind of authoritarian hierarchy. Humans are not in authority over the rest of creation because we were created last. We are in authority because God bestowed such authority upon us. The order we were created in is completely irrelevant to the authority we are granted. All of that is true for male and female as well, except that no authority was ever bestowed by God on one gender over the other. So, not only is created order not even remotely relevant to headship (authority over another), but headship does not exist unless granted by God.