Genesis
"You will desire your husband but he will be your master, (3:16 Genesis). The story Genesis discourages the notion of gender balance by portraying women as less than man. In this creation story, God creates the heavens and the earth, everything in between, and Adam (man) from dust. The Lord God allows his creation, Adam, to abide in the Garden of Eden and eat from whatever tree he pleases except from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. Latter on, the Lord God notices that man is not complete. He therefore creates Eve, a woman, from Adam's rib to complete man. From this part of the story, it is assert able that this story doesn't support gender balance from the fact that god creates man first in his image and latter creates woman from one of Adam's ribs. This is basically saying that man more important
In conclusion, this story of creation is can be viewed as both gender balanced and gender imbalanced. However by using practicality and commonsense it is the inevitable conclusion that the female/ woman gender is looked upon, or portrayed as less than that of man. because he was created first, and woman is merely an afterthought, or an extra to the concept of creating man. Also it is important to note that woman was created from man and is therefore not seen as a separate identity. One who may believe that Geneses does support gender balance would argue the fact that when the Lord God created woman, man was incomplete. Therefore man and woman are equal to one another and need each other to be complete. But the fact of the matter is that the Lord God created man not woman first suggesting that man is more important
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