Christianity and Feminism

In Webster’s dictionary, feminism is defined as, “the theory of political, economic, and social equality.  God has created men and women equally in His image, there is no doubt about that. But some feminists can get offended because even in the Bible, men can do things that women cannot. For instance, they can serve as leaders of the country and have most of the power. They also serve in the highest positions of the church. This can be commonly misconstrued by feminists to mean that Christians do not believe in the equality of men and women but the reality of the situation is that women and men were created equally, just to carry out different functions in the family and life. Women were created to be bear children and to be nurturing. Where as, men were created to hold down the household and provide for his family. Each of these tasks is equally important, but the nature of the two are just simply different. No one is higher than the other. Another example of men and women being equal but having different nature is the draft in war and having women on the front line. Some women may in fact be fully capable of handling that but it is not natural for women to kill and shoot at people when God created them to be nurturing, kind, compassionate beings. The inverse of this is women having children. Men will never be able to bear a child but that does not make them any less capable than women. So, as Christian’s, we need to be respectful to women and they should not be looked down upon but we also need to recognize the difference between the nature of men and women and respect that nature that God has instilled in each of us.