text: Actually Dennism, this argument does not help women.
  
  God in Genesis stated from the beginning that God created man, one creation, not two, so equals and the same, and deserving of all the same rights and benefits.
  
  Later after both woman & man sinned against God, they both lost perfection & both as unsaved lesser beings, fallen beings, are now going to treat each other as un-equals.  Natural man is unsaved, mortal, does not trust his wife, and she is controlled by his greater physical strength.  She now is dishonest with him in order to gain the same things he has.  
  
  God taught the Israelites differently, that man & women are equals and recognition of this equality, in practice, in their lives, is proof their relationship with God exists greater than with other people.  Catholics & Jews often teach wrongly the old & new testaments with many erroneous assumptions.  
  
  Christians prove they are saved by treating and ordaining all the same, including women, or we prove we are unsaved.