{"id":52,"date":"2006-11-22T01:29:03","date_gmt":"2006-11-22T01:29:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/strivetoenter.com\/wim\/2006\/11\/22\/could-the-messiah-have-been-a-woman\/"},"modified":"2015-10-19T20:33:48","modified_gmt":"2015-10-20T03:33:48","slug":"could-the-messiah-have-been-a-woman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/strivetoenter.com\/wim\/2006\/11\/22\/could-the-messiah-have-been-a-woman\/","title":{"rendered":"Could the Messiah have been a woman?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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Since God is neither male nor female, some have suggested that the Messiah could have been born a female. I would respectfully like to differ with that view. In this post I want to show from scripture why the Messiah had to be a male.<\/p>\n

The scriptures definitively say that sin came through one man.<\/p>\n

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Romans 5:12 NASB: \u201cTherefore, just as through one man sin entered into the world, and death through sin, and so death spread to all men, because all sinned\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Paul carries the thought further by saying:<\/p>\n

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Romans 5:19 \u201cFor as through the one man\u2019s<\/span> disobedience<\/span> the many were made sinners, even so through the obedience of the One the many will be made righteous.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Although Adam and Eve both sinned, the willful disobedience of the man was what brought sin into the world.<\/p>\n

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1Timothy 2:14: \u201cAnd it was<\/span><\/em> not Adam who<\/span><\/em> was deceived, but the woman being deceived, fell into transgression.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

The woman sinned and ate the fruit because she was deceived. She sincerely believed the lie of the serpent and ate the fruit fully believing that she would become like God. Adam on the other hand was not deceived. He did not believe that he could become like God. He did not<\/span> believe that he would not die. Yet even though he was not<\/span> deceived, even though he knew he couldn\u2019t become like God, and he knew he would die for his disobedience, he willingly took of the fruit and in full disobedience with his eyes wide open to the consequences of what God had said \u2013 he ate.<\/p>\n

Although Adam and Eve both sinned and both died because of their sin, only the man is charged with outright rebellion. Rejecting the word of God with deliberate disobedience is a very serious matter. Saul was another man who rebelled against God\u2019s word. Samuel spoke a judgment against Saul when he said:<\/p>\n

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1 Samuel 15:23 \u201cFor rebellion<\/span> is as the sin of divination, And insubordination is as iniquity and idolatry. Because you have rejected<\/span> the word of the LORD, He has also rejected you from being<\/span><\/em> king.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

I would like to diagram the effects of what happened when Adam sinned. It would be helpful to get the full idea of what I am talking about by reading my previous post \u201cAdam as Head of the family\u201d<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Adam brought sin into the human family and his bloodline was tainted.<\/p>\n

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Yet when God confronted Adam and Eve, he did not leave them without hope because of their sin. God promised a kinsman redeemer, one who would come through the seed of the woman.<\/p>\n

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Genesis 3:15 And I will put enmity Between you and the woman, And between your seed and her seed; He shall bruise you on the head, And you shall bruise him on the heel.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Now you will notice in this verse that the one who will bruise the serpent on the head is a \u201cHe\u201d. The Hebrew shows that the one who is to come is a male. Why is it prophesied that the Messiah would be a male? It is because it was the man<\/span> who brought sin into the world. Adam is a type of the one to come.<\/p>\n

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Romans 5:14 \u201cNevertheless death reigned from Adam until Moses, even over those who had not sinned in the likeness of the offense of Adam, who is a type of Him who was to come<\/span>.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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The Messiah was not just said to be human, he was also called the second Adam.<\/p>\n

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1 Corinthians 15:45 So also it is written, \u201cThe first MAN, Adam, BECAME A LIVING SOUL.\u201d The last Adam became<\/span><\/em> a life-giving spirit.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

The last Adam, Jesus Christ, was the life giver. It is through him that we receive back what Adam lost. Eve did not lose it for us, Adam did. Mankind did not need a second Eve because sin does not come through her bloodline.<\/p>\n

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It was through the first male that sin entered the world and the result of that inherited sin is death.<\/p>\n

It is through the second male \u2013 the second Adam, that mankind is offered eternal life.<\/p>\n

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Now some might think that the fact that the Messiah was male is somehow important regarding his Godhood. It isn\u2019t. God is neither male nor female. Scripture only speaks of the importance of the Messiah\u2019s being male in regards to his taking the place of the first Adam who plunged mankind into sin. God turned Satan\u2019s deception on its heels. Through the very one whom Satan deceived into sinning, God bypassed the sin of the first Adam and brought the second Adam into our world. It is by putting faith in this last Adam that we will find forgiveness and a restored relationship with God.<\/p>\n

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