In the beginning, on the sixth day of creation before the Sabbath, God created man, and he made them male and female and called their name Adam. We are told by the Apostle Paul that this is a great mystery and that it speaks in regard to Christ and the Church.

Only by understanding the purposes of creation can we rightly begin to understand the mystery of God making them male and female, their purpose for being, and their placement in the patriarch. Otherwise, viewing things outside of their purpose, there are schisms and confusion concerning the roles of the male, female, and marriage. And God is not the author of confusion.

In Genesis 2:21–25, it is written: “And the Lord God caused a deep sleep to fall upon Adam, and he slept; and he took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh instead thereof; and the rib, which the Lord God had taken from man, he made a woman, and brought her unto the man.” And Adam said, “This is now bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh; she shall be called woman because she was taken out of man. Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother and cleave to his wife, and they shall be one flesh.

Thus, the two become one flesh, just as Christ and his bride become one flesh and one spirit.

In that God made man in his likeness and in his image, it is to be understood that it is not separately, but together as one, that man and woman express the likeness and image of God. The two together create an expression of completeness, for the Lord is not lacking in any good thing that the man or woman brings into marriage.

God, who is one, separated distinct characteristics of his own being and set them apart in the creation of male and female to magnify the variations of his goodness and virtue, which are complementary to each other, both strength and tenderness, and mercy and judgment.

God created man to express strength. He is to be a leader, defender, protector, teacher, judge, and provider. Man largely relies on logic and reason above emotions.

However, God is not one-dimensional. Being multi-dimensional, he reveals this to us in his creation of the woman. Woman was created to express the love of God and his service to others—that part of God wherein lies compassion, mercy, selflessness, nourishment, meekness, and meticulousness in works, serving in humility—virtues that in man are often overridden by the narrow focus of the male character.

It is also in women that we find greater unpredictability; likewise, a part of God acts against what would seem reasonable in that he grants grace to us through his love, whereby, when we were certainly deserving of death, we found pity and compassion in his eyes, and he offered us life instead of death through the shedding of his own blood by taking our sins upon himself on the cross.

In what is sometimes referred to as “woman’s intuition,” virtue overrides what pure reason might demand and does good that never would have been realized beforehand legalistically.

However, even though both male and female were created to express the image of God, being that God is infinite and in him is the fullness of all goodness, it is not possible that either man or woman would measure up to their roles in expressing the virtue of God to perfection, nor is it possible that finite beings could ever perfectly express the fullness of the infinite God.

Nonetheless, in the man and in the woman, God gave us two finite beings united to become one in marriage, wherein the fullness and completeness of God might be comprehended at least in part, even in the imperfection of the human state of those whom he has chosen and called to attain perfection.

Even so, the goodness of God is made manifest in Christ and his bride, which is the church. This is the true love of God made manifest—that he laid down his life for his bride, that his bride should be redeemed and set free to also love him and others by laying down her life to bring forth children for the Father—that in heaven and earth, all in him might be gathered together as one family at the time appointed.

The chaos and confusion of gender identification pervading the world today is a consequence of men and women failing to accept and fulfill the roles given to them by God. Through the lusts of the flesh, many do not make any attempt to fulfill their biological role as male or female. In rebellion against their Creator, they defile the image of God by confusing roles or by claiming fluidity.

Thus, the union of male and female joined together as one in the beginning, whereby God began revealing the spectrum of his being, has by the world been perverted into the inordinate beastly nature of man and the schizophrenic nature of Satan. And as God made man in his image and in his likeness, when the Devil captures souls, he also fashions them after himself.