God's Chief End: A Class Analysis

Throughout this semester, many important topics have been covered. Each of these topics are crucial to a believer's faith, however there are some that stand out in my mind as being most important. All of these topics I had somewhat of an understanding before taking the class, but I have grown in my knowledge and would consider them to be the most important things I have further learned through this course. The topics are: God’s chief end is to glorify Himself, God is faithful, and complementarianism. First, God’s chief end is to glorify Himself. This may perhaps seem like a negative attribute, but the opposite is true. For us humans, selfishness is bad because we are seeking to glorify something that is truly unworthy to be glorified. Romans …show more content…
This means that a man and a woman have distinct roles and they are created as complements to each other. The current culture condemns this mindset and says that it is extremely oppressive. Christians however, are to live according to God's economy, not the worlds. God’s economy is always better. God created human beings, He knows how they should work. God also created marriage and knows how it should work (Genesis 2:18-25). God did not have to create mankind. God was not lonely, he has the eternal fellowship of the Trinity. God chose to create mankind to bring Him glory and so that we could enjoy Him forever. The first picture in Genesis is that God created man distinctly different than the rest of His creation. God breathes life into the man's nostrils, something that He did for no other creation. Further, the man was created first and woman second. Nothing is random or meaningless in God's plan (Daniel 4:35). Woman was created after man, she was created as a helper fit for him. Nowhere in scripture does it say that the woman was of less value. However, she is created as a helper for Adam. Later in the Bible, we learn that the head of a woman is a man. If one argues that this assumes that the woman has less value, this person also assumes that because God is the head of Christ (1 Corinthians 11:3), Christ has less value. This is a perversion of the truth. This is the natural order: God, Christ, man, woman, beast. In the fall (Genesis 3) the opposite happens. A beast tempts the woman who is then tempting the man who then tries to hides from God. If we are to fight this sinful inclination within us, we must understand and adhere to the biblical order of creation. The man is called to lead and the woman is called to submit. In Ephesians 5 we find the Biblical qualifications for marriage. The man is called to lead in love, lead in the word, lead in righteousness,