{"id":697,"date":"2008-11-12T15:10:37","date_gmt":"2008-11-12T22:10:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/strivetoenter.com\/wim\/?p=697"},"modified":"2015-03-17T20:27:57","modified_gmt":"2015-03-18T03:27:57","slug":"spiritually-different-by-design","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mmoutreach.org\/wim\/2008\/11\/12\/spiritually-different-by-design\/","title":{"rendered":"Spiritually different by design?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img data-attachment-id=\"699\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/mmoutreach.org\/wim\/2008\/11\/12\/spiritually-different-by-design\/ducks2\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mmoutreach.org\/wim\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/ducks2.jpg?fit=253%2C178&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"253,178\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"ducks2-Women-In-Ministry-by-Cheryl-Schatz\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mmoutreach.org\/wim\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/ducks2.jpg?fit=253%2C178&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mmoutreach.org\/wim\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/ducks2.jpg?fit=253%2C178&amp;ssl=1\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-699\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.mmoutreach.org\/wim\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/ducks2.jpg?resize=253%2C178\" alt=\"ducks2-Women-In-Ministry-by-Cheryl-Schatz\" width=\"253\" height=\"178\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n<p>CBMW (Council for Biblical Manhood and Womanhood) puts on conferences called &#8220;Different by Design&#8221; and in these conferences\u00a0 they teach that God created men and women different for different purposes.<\/p>\n<p>While we can agree with CBMW that men and women are created physically different, does this mean that God created them also spiritually different?\u00a0 How will we know?\u00a0 Let&#8217;s ask ourselves some questions to see if the bible gives any indication that men and women are spiritually different.<\/p>\n<p>1.\u00a0 Do men and women have different ways for being saved?<\/p>\n<p>2.\u00a0 Are men and women designed to come before God in prayer in a different way?<\/p>\n<p>3.\u00a0 Are there lists of spiritual gifts that are listed for only men or only women?<\/p>\n<p>4.\u00a0 Do men and women inherit spiritual &#8220;sonship&#8221; in a different way?<\/p>\n<p>5.\u00a0 Is the command to make disciples given only to one gender?<\/p>\n<p>It appears to me that what CBMW does is a bait and switch, confusing physical and biological differences with spiritual differences.<\/p>\n<p>In our next post we will look at Galatians 3:28 to see how the complementarian and egalitarian camps look at this verse very differently and how we can determine which of these views is correct or if both of these views is flawed in some way.<\/p>\n<p>What do you think?\u00a0 Does scripture list our <strong>spiritual<\/strong> make up as differently designed by God?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CBMW (Council for Biblical Manhood and Womanhood) puts on conferences called &#8220;Different by Design&#8221; and in these conferences\u00a0 they teach that God created men and women different for different purposes. 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