Cheryl

Lin,

You are exactly right in that “heir” is something beyond salvation. Complementarians have tried so hard to make Galatians 3:28 to be nothing but salvation. However the context right flows right into chapter 4 where the full inheritance is discussed. Paul says in verse 7: “Therefore you are no longer a slave, but a son; and if a son, then an heir through God.” If you are a son, i.e. if you are saved and belong to the family of God, then you are an heir of all that God has. Is this only salvation. No it can’t be. It can’t just be about women being saved, but about women being heirs. If, then, women are “sons”, then women are “heirs” of God who also inherit everything too. If women are also “heirs” then it is impossible that God holds back some of his gifts from this group. The only way one can not see the gifts in this passage is if one comes to Galatians 3:28 with a preconceived notion that women have only one thing in common with men and that is salvation. When one doesn’t have that tradition in mind, chapter 4 blows away the false tradition that women are equal to God (in salvation) but unequal to men (in God’s gifts). Praise God that he makes all of us “sons” of God so that there is no prejudice or special treat of any with God!