Could our Savior have just as easily been a woman?

Question

Or did God for some reason prefer Him to be a Man?

Could a Woman have just as well saved us? If not, then why should we think women are worthy themselves of salvation?

Then why would the people who would not believe a woman, not even the Daughter of God, be worthy of salvation if they would believe in the Son of God, while Jesus insists that Blessed are those who believe without seeing (seeing would also refer to differentiating, with sight, the sex of the Savior).

So there are some True Believers in Christ, who, if Christ were born a woman, would NOT be true believers, and God would excuse them for this???? Is there not a hint of sexism here?

The Son of Man had no qualms about rejecting all of society's customs so long as they were sinful, wouldn't also the Daughter of Man refuse to marry so that she might fulfill the Will of Her Father???

Wasn't it Eve who first tasted the Fruit? Would it perhaps not be more fitting then that a woman save us?

Answer 1

I DON'T KNOW, I NEVER THOUGHT ABOUT IT. I GUESS OUR SAVIOR WAS JUST MEANT TO BE A MAN. I DON'T KNOW IF A WOMAN COULD OF DONE IT OR NOT. EVE A WOMAN GAVE INTO TEMPTATION, SO I GUESS ITS BETTER THE WAY THINGS WORKED OUT. YES WOMEN ARE WORTHY OF SALVATION, EVERYONE IS.

Answer 2

Jesus is a man, because the Bible was clear that He is. Also, it looks like you are thinking that women are "inferior" in the Bible and I would argue that women do not have less important roles, just different ones. Look at the marriage picture. The husband is to love his wife as Christ loved the church even giving his life up for her! The wife is to submit to the husband as he must submit unto Christ. Women do not have LOWER jobs, just different ones. There are no unimportant jobs in the body of Christ. Think of your physical body...which is more important? The lungs or the heart. Both are needed.

Could a woman have just as well saved us? Sure. God could have chosen any type of person. He chose Jesus. Women themselves are NOT worthy of salvation. Neither are men. NO ONE is worthy of salvation. It's just God's good pleasure whom He choses. Hope this helps.

Answer 3

No, because the ultimate responsibility for the Fall of Man falls on a Man--Adam. It therefore took another Man to take his (Adam's) place as the (spiritual) progenitor of a new form of Men.

Go back to Genesis 2. Yes, Eve was the first to taste the fruit of the Tree of Knowledge, at the serpent's prompting. Where was Adam? Out picking strawberries? Asleep? Taking a bath in Niagara Falls? NO.

Adam was standing right there, watching and listening. He allowed Eve to take her life into her own hands. He let her take something they had both been told would bring death, and eat it. He let her take the risk, and then when she still "seemed" alive, he took the fruit from her hands, and ate it.

Then Adam blamed his wife for his own gutless actions. To God's face no less! At least Eve didn't blame Adam, or say "Well, he let me do it". She admitted being decieved by the serpent, and eating.

The man Adam had more responsibility in the Fall. It took another Man to buy us back (redeem us) from that terrible action.

Not to be left out, the Woman was also responsible. When the results of their actions were made known to them, Eve was told that one of her daughters' "seeds" would crush the head of the enemy, the serpent. Now without a doubt, men are usually credited with "seed" (semen--from the latin for "seed" ), so to what was God referring? God was referring to the Virgin Birth of Christ, that an obedient woman (Miryam, or Mary of Nazareth) would bear the Redeemer, without the "seed" of Fallen Man.

So, Eve took the first bite of sin (disobedience), and passed it onto her Husband (Adam) and then on to all of mankind (together).

Mary obeyed God, and bore the sinless one, Jesus. Jesus took the punishment for all of the sins of the world (past, present, future), and became the Saviour of mankind. His obedience and suffering opened up the way to God, which had been closed at the Fall.

Nobody is worthy of salvation, btw. It is an act of grace--a gift that nobody can earn. If we could earn it, it wouldn't be salvation, it would be wages. Salvation is something we need, or we die without it. It is something that is offered, and can be refused, like a life preserver in a flood.

Answer 4

Overseas,

Well, I have to admit, that is an original question. Since the scriptures make it pretty clear, that when we enter into the next, and spiritual phase of our existence, we will be sort of gender neutral beings, why not? In fact, I would go as far as to say, that one of the things Jesus taught, was to get in touch with your feminine side. He was a pacifist. He was also very compassionate. By today's standards of macho manhood, He would probably be considered weak. So why did He come as a Male? If you are familiar with the culture that was present then, and still in place throughout much of that part of the world, women were basically property, unless they were rich. Had he come as a woman, He would never have been allowed to speak in the temple for 5 minutes. His disciples, all of them raised in that same culture, sadly, would have never been able to overcome their prejudices about women, long enough to even listen to Him. Also, there is the little problem of all the prophesies, that describe the coming Messiah, as the Son of David. It was a logistical necessity, not a lack of ability on the part of women.

Answer 5

I think that 2000 years ago, in the middle east, men were already considered superior, so a woman probably wouldn't have had the amout of followers. If I had ben god around that time and I wanted to send myself to earth in the shape of a human, I would have wanted to be a man, too.

Answer 6

And how would you get the Jews to follow a woman? A woman would have been long since married off and a mother. That was the culture of the time.

Answer 7

I think since it was a man that lost it for us, it would be appropriate for a man would win it back.

1Co 15:22 For as in Adam all die, so also in Christ shall all be made alive.

1Co 15:45 Thus it is written, "The first man Adam became a living being"; the last Adam became a life-giving spirit.

Answer 8

No. We live in a male dominated culture, as we always have.
If the holy trinity is 3, who is the third part of the trinity, the 'holy spirit'? The holy spirist is wisdom, aka Sophia. At least, that's what I read somewhere :)

Answer 9

Nope. No one can save us.

Answer 10

God will always prevails.