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(1 Cor. 11:7-9) Are women made in God’s image or man’s? CLAIM: Paul writes that men are the “image and glory of God,” but women are the “glory of man.” What does he mean by this? RESPONSE: Several observations can be made: First, Paul does not write that women are in the “image” of men.
31 lip 2019 · The passage goes on: Men should uncover their heads in worship, and women should cover theirs, to guard against shame and dishonour. Why? Because man “is the image and glory of God, but woman is the glory of man” (11:7 NIV).
Paul teaches, undeniably, that men and women bear the image and glory of God. Moreover, men and women can bring glory to God (e.g., 1 Cor. 10:31; 2 Cor. 4:15; Eph 1:10-11). He made us for his glory!
It means that in Christ men and women recover what was meant by being created male and female in God’s image. It means that together as male and female they are to image-forth the glory of God and together as fellow-heirs they are to inherit the glory of God.
27 sie 2024 · As part of his teaching, Paul provides guidance on wearing head coverings during public worship (verses 2–16). He states: “A man ought not to cover his head, since he is the image and glory of God; but woman is the glory of man. For man did not come from woman, but woman from man” (verses 7–8).
To love God does not mean to meet His needs, but rather to delight in Him and to be captivated by His glorious power and grace, and to value Him above all other things on earth. All the rest of the commandments are the kinds of things that we will do from our hearts, if our hearts are truly delighted with and resting in the glory of God's grace.
Man was formed by God from dust in His own image, to become—at that moment—the glory of God's creation. Woman, generally speaking, is the glory of man. Paul will explain in the following verse that this is because Eve was taken out of man, fashioned from Adam's rib, when she was created.
