If what I read from some male leaders within the church, I would say no He doesn’t like women. Their focus is on the scriptures that tell women to be silent and to submit, that women shouldn’t teach men, forgetting the character of God. That our only purpose is the raise the babies, take care of the house, and have dinner on the table when he gets home. That he is the leader of the home and has the final word.
We’ve forgotten that God created women in his image too, that he didn’t create the woman out of dirt, but He took his time to create and design her and put into her what was in Him. When we as the church consider women as less than, we are telling God that part of Him is wrong. God has both male and female attributes.
Jesus not only saw women, He honored them and He knows what it’s like to be a woman; He created us, after all. He didn’t see us as less; He went out of his way to interact with the woman at the well and reveal to her He’s the Messiah. She became the first evangelist, leading an entire town to Jesus.
He saw the women who were used and abused by men, and He transformed their lives. Women of influence followed him and supported his ministry. He stayed in the home of women, cried with them when their brother died, raised him from the dead out of love for them and to bring glory to His Father.
He gave a woman her life back after being crippled for eighteen years, for another he gave the opportunity to share her story after she risked death to just touch Jesus. He turned water into wine for his mother. It was the women who never left his side as he hung on the cross and who returned to prepare his body only to discover he had risen! A woman was the first to see him after his resurrection.
Luke 24:11 details how the women ran to where the disciples were hiding, told them Jesus was alive and the disciples didn’t believe them since their story sounded too outrageous.
The Passion Translation
Jesus only did what his Father told him to do, which means the Father sees us and likes us too, and the Holy Spirit is most like women and he’s part of the Trinity.
It saddens me that so many men within the church believe that God doesn’t like women, that He still holds us responsible for bringing sin into the world. Just as the first Adam was redeemed by the Second Adam—Jesus, Eve was also redeemed. It was through a woman that the head of the devil was squished when the Messiah was born… from a woman.
So, ladies, don’t let anyone tell you or imply that you are second best, that you are less than a man. Jesus paid a high price for you just as he did for men. Husbands and wives are two sides of the same coin, two sides of the same river. We should work and live together, side by side, loving and submitting to one another.
The Church is the one place where women should be treated as equals, sadly it is not. Women are held responsible for the abusive actions of their husbands, expected to stay in abusive marriages to protect marriage covenant, women usually aren’t believed when they come to the church for help from an abusive husband. Though the abusive men are believed when they say they didn’t do it or it wasn’t as bad as she said, or he says I’m sorry.
We can and must do better as the Body of Christ.
There are women who desperately need the Church to believe them.