YTH | Rizz-lationships | Week 1

GENDER DEFINITIONS:

1) either the male or female division of a species, especially as differentiated by social and cultural roles and behavior.

2) a similar category of human beings that is outside the male/female binary classification and is based on the individual’s personal awareness or identity. (GENDER IDENTITY)

Why Did God Choose To Create Gender?

Then God said, “Let us make mankind in our image, in our likeness, so that they may rule over the fish in the sea and the birds in the sky, over the livestock and all the wild animals, and over all the creatures that move along the ground.”
²⁷So God created mankind in His own image,
in the image of God He created them;
male and female He created them.
– Genesis 1:26-27

The Lord God said, “It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make a helper suitable for him.”
¹⁹Now the Lord God had formed out of the ground all the wild animals and all the birds in the sky. He brought them to the man to see what he would name them; and whatever the man called each living creature, that was its name. ²⁰So the man gave names to all the livestock, the birds in the sky and all the wild animals. But for Adam no suitable helper was found. ²¹So the Lord God caused the man to fall into a deep sleep; and while he was sleeping, He took one of the man’s ribs and then closed up the place with flesh. ²²Then the Lord God made a woman from the rib He had taken out of the man, and He brought her to the man.
²³The man said,
“This is now bone of my bones
and flesh of my flesh;
she shall be called ‘woman,’
for she was taken out of man.”
– Genesis 2:18-23