Danvers Statement on Biblical Manhood and Womanhood (Affirmations)

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Affirmations

Based on our understanding of Biblical teachings, we affirm the following:

1. Both Adam and Eve were created in God’s image, before God as persons and in their manhood and womanhood (Genesis 1:26, 2:18).

2. in masculine and feminine roles are by God as part of the , and should find an echo in every human heart (Genesis 2:18, 21–24; 1 Corinthians 11:7–9; 1 Timothy 2:12).

3. Adam’s in marriage was established by God before the Fall, and was not a result of (Genesis 2:16–18, 21–24, 3:1–13; 1 Corinthians 11:7–9).

4. The introduced distortions into the between men and women (Genesis 3:1–7, 12, 16).

In the home, the husband’s loving, humble tends to be replaced by domination or ; the wife's intelligent, willing tends to be replaced by or servility.

In the church, sin inclines men toward a worldly love of or an of spiritual responsibility, and inclines women to resist on their roles or to the use of their gifts in appropriate ministries.

5. The Old Testament, as well as the New Testament, manifests the value and dignity which God attached to the roles of both men and women (Genesis 1:26–27, 2:18; Galatians 3:28). Both Old and New Testaments also affirm the principle of in the family and in the covenant community (Genesis 2:18; Ephesians 5:21–33; Colossians 3:18–19; 1 Timothy 2:11–15).

6. in Christ aims at removing the introduced by the curse.

In the family, husbands should forsake harsh or leadership and grow in love and care for their wives; wives should forsake to their husbands' authority and grow in willing, submission to their husbands' leadership (Ephesians 5:21-33; Colossians 3:18–19; Titus 2:3–5; 1 Peter 3:1–7).

In the church, redemption in Christ gives men and women an in the blessings of salvation; nevertheless, some roles within the church are restricted to men (Galatians 3:28; 1 Corinthians 11:2-16; 1 Timothy 2:11–15).

7. In all of life Christ is the authority and guide for men and women, so that no submission—domestic, religious, or civil—ever implies a mandate to follow a human authority into (Daniel 3:10–18; Acts 4:19–20, 5:27–29; 1 Peter 3:1–2).

8. In both men and women a heartfelt sense of should never be used to set aside Biblical criteria for particular ministries (1 Timothy 2:11–15, 3:1–13; Titus 1:5–9). Rather, should remain the authority for testing our subjective discernment of God’s will.

9. With half the world’s population outside the reach of evangelism; with countless other lost people in those societies that have the gospel; with the stresses and miseries of sickness, malnutrition, homelessness, illiteracy, ignorance, aging, addiction, crime, incarceration, neuroses, and loneliness, no man or woman who feels a passion from God to make His grace known in word and deed need ever live without a ministry for the of Christ and the of this fallen world (1 Corinthians 12:7–21).

10. We are convinced that a of these principles will lead to increasingly destructive in our families, our churches, and the culture at large.

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