Cheryl Schatz

Mark,

You said to me:

I feel like we continually go round in circles. Let me comment on a few things, particularly where you have misunderstood me aswell.

1. In your original post you said God named the woman “God called her woman before Adam did.” Now you say things like this “I said that God identified/called her woman when he built her.” Can you see the problem i am having. I understand that essentially you are saying that because the narrative says “he made into a woman” (Gen 2:22), that this narrative is identifying her as ‘woman’ and thus God calls her woman before the man. But it’s just dancing around the obvious. Yes God created her, but the job of calling her something was given to the man.

The problem that you are having is that God no where “gave” the “job” of calling her “woman” to the man. Where do you get this from? You continually claim this but give no proof of your claim. I am the one who is constantly going back to the text that says that God created “woman”. Since her beginning is said to be from God’s creation and she is identified not just as “human” or “Adam” or “female” but specifically “woman”, then her creation is what qualifies her to be “woman”. I request that you prove your point from the Scriptures rather than continually ignoring her creation as “woman” and claiming a “job” for the man that is never given to him. If I was the one that was picking my arguments from thin air, you would likely identity me as a non-evangelical, like you did to Kay.

2. The sentence structure is the same as with the other animals.

Mark, your sentence structure reveals your heart. You are placing the woman in category as one with the “other animals”. Can you not see what you are doing? What kind of prejudice against women would place God’s creation in God’s image into the category of “animal”?

God ‘forms’ the creation ( and the narrative identifies what the created animal is i.e beasts, birds and woman),

Uh huh, yup, you are once again identifying the woman as an “animal” along with the beasts and birds. At this point I am wondering why you are even here? Why communicate with this “other animal” when you could be communicating with real people (men) on other blogs? Is this a game for you to see how much of the wild animal you can rile up within women? Do you enjoy putting us in the category of all the other animals?