Why didn’t God make both genders at once?

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I’m not the one trying redefine what it means to be a man or a woman. Your progressive allies are the ones doing that in an attempt to undermine longstanding truth.

All men have penises. Anyone with a penis is a man.

All women have vaginas. Anyone with a vagina is a woman. Facts.
 
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Did he make men and women? Are we made in his image? Yes.

Ergo, he has to have both.
 
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If both genders are equal why wouldn’t he have made them at the same time or was it symbolic of something else?
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Gender definition: the state of being male or female (typically used with reference to social and cultural differences rather than biological ones).

They are not equal biologically since they sexes have two different genomes. If you mean social or cultural differences then those are also not the same.

Male and femals are complementary.
 
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Sorry! There isn’t actually a feminine aspect to God. If it helps there isn’t a masculine element either. God is neither male nor female. He is big and strong and yet at the same time he is gentle and caring but that doesn’t just mean he has masculine or feminine aspects. We refer to God as a “he” because although he is not male nor female, he is 100% a Father and 0% a Mother. How can this be? Well if God is a Father and he is genderless, that means that Fatherhood is not a gender-based role. However, God destined for all human Fathers to be male for reasons I cannot get into right now. So if all human fathers are male than it makes sense to imagine God, “the perfect Father” as male. However, God already chose what he wanted us to do and become before he put us into the world as male and female so women don’t have to feel as though they are being held back because being born a woman is the biggest sign that your vocation is not Fatherhood! 😀 Equal but not Identical!
 
Well, every man after that originated from a woman’s body. Perhaps the story had the first woman come from man to balance that out.
 
I think what is meant by “gender” being different from “sex” is because it is a relative term.

For instance, my sister likes pink bags, it is a favorite color for her. Her sex is female, but nothing besides societal customs and programming dictates that she must like pink or like carrying a purse. Nothing in nature dictates a woman must like a pink handbag. But it is considered normative for her gender to do these things.

In another culture, carrying a pink bag might be something strongly associated with male, or masculine, behavior. Regardless who carries the bag, the person is still objectively of the male or female sex.

So gender identity is the range of associations, behaviors, customs, etc., that are associated with masculine or feminine characteristics and are very subjective and highly influenced by culture.
 
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Prior to the sixties they were like the same thing.
Heck, even whIle I was growing up my parents taught me they were essentially interchangeable words that meant the same thing.
 
Well who would open the door for woman if we weren’t around first? 😉
 
I kind of feel like this passage is a life saver in modern times because, while women may have had a lesser role in some societies they always did sill have a role (to make babies). Nowadays people are seemingly forgetting that men also do have an important role in societies and are just as necessary for "hu"mankind as women. It’s kind of the whole “women can do anything a man can do and more!”
 
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If both genders are equal why wouldn’t he have made them at the same time or was it symbolic of something else?
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I really hope someone knowledgeable about Judaism chimes in here.

I do recall reading a Jewish perspective that stated the name “Adam” wasn’t necessarily the specific name of the first man but was the more general name given to mankind.

In other words, Adam referred to humanity, corporately. Genesis gives two accounts and in the first, there it is said that when God created “man” (Adam), “male and female he created them.” Implying that in the mind of God, they were both there from the beginning.

In the second account, Eve is shown to be drawn out of “Adam” - having previously existed as part of him.

My simple mind likens it to an egg. From the outside, one unit and seamless. Once you crack it apart, the yolk and white are together, yet separable and distinct.
 
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I remember being told as a child that it was connected to God bringing all the animals to Adam. Adam was first shown everything that wasn’t like him so that when the one who was like him appeared it would be the most amazing and remarkable thing possible (aside from seeing and speaking with God of course).
 
We are like God in a spiritual sense. I don’t know that much about this but maybe you can look it up.
 
I am not sure about that 0% mother part. Jesus once compared Himself to mother hen trying to gather her children. Maybe Motherhood is like the Fatherhood you described except that God intended it to be for females?
 
Notice in the first account they are called male and female. Together they are the image and likeness of God. The first account they are commanded to be fruitful and multiply. Thus the human family, manifests externally and visibly the image and likeness of the Trinity. The love between male and female manifests in a child. The love between Father and Son spirates another divine person.

The second account details human nature relative to God and man relative to woman.

In the second account they are called Man and Woman. Adam is Man. Man as a whole. Human nature is expressed primarily by Adam because Adam is the generating force relative to animals .The animals are passive relative to man. Like God is the generating force relative to man. Man is passive relative to God.

The male is the generator in the creative act, he is the sower of the seed and in the generative power of a male there is no change… The female is the receiver in the creative act, she is the earth in which the seed is sown and the passive power of a female there is a cycle of change.

Changlessness and Change distinguish the Man and the Woman. Like the Sun and the moon. Changlessness and change. The moon reflects in cycles the steady light of the sun.

So the Woman in Rev, stands on the moon( symbol or change) and is clothed by the Sun.( symbol of changelessness.)

So this being the order of human nature relative to God and the order of a man relative to a woman, God made Adam first and out of him built Woman.
 
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Matt 23:37

How often have I desired to gather your children together as a hen gathers her brood under her wings, and you were not willing!
 
JanSobieskiIII said:
God certainly has a feminine side.
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The Catechism explains it as

370 In no way is God in man’s image. He is neither man nor woman. God is pure spirit in which there is no place for the difference between the sexes. But the respective “perfections” of man and woman reflect something of the infinite perfection of God: those of a mother and those of a father and husband.241

I think the Church doesn’t say God is masculine or feminine like we are but rather the qualities or “perfections” of masculinity and femininity (better referred to as fatherhood and motherhood) do reflect something about God’s own goodness and perfection.

Edited to add re: the OP’s question - I think because God is Three Divine Persons in One God, that there is male and female whose love brings about a third unique person and this is one way that the two sexes can reflect the Trinity.

If there had been only a man, Adam, he is not capable of being Three in One. He would only be one but he wouldn’t be able to experience the fullness of relationship with another who is like him and equal and yet different so that love can be fully expressed in both giving and receiving.
 
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