401. "God created man in his own image…”

YOUCAT Catechism + Catechism of the Catholic Church Lesson 401

Ave Maria series

Is there a priority of one sex over the other?

No.  God endowed men and women with identical dignity as persons.  [2331, 2335]

 

Sisters-in-law Lisa and Hope hold each other’s youngest child Stephen and Leila. ….. 401

Both men and women are human beings created in God’s image and children of God redeemed by Jesus Christ. It is just as unchristian as it is inhumane to discriminate unjustly against someone because he is male or female. Equal dignity and equal rights, nevertheless do not mean uniformity.  The sort of egalitarianism that ignores the specific character of a man or a woman contradicts God’s plan of creation.  54, 260

“Christianity snatched women from a condition that was the equivalent of slavery.”  Madame de Stael (1766-1817, French author)

“There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free, there is neither male nor female; for you are all one in Christ Jesus.”  Galatians 3:28

[2331, 2335]

"MALE AND FEMALE HE CREATED THEM . . ."

2331 "God is love and in himself he lives a mystery of personal loving communion. Creating the human race in his own image . . .. God inscribed in the humanity of man and woman the vocation, and thus the capacity and responsibility, of love and communion." (Familiaris Consortio 11)¹¹⁵–Catechism of the Catholic Church, Second Edition

"God created man in his own image . . . male and female he created them"; (Genesis 1:27.)¹¹⁶ He blessed them and said, "Be fruitful and multiply"; (Genesis 1:28)¹¹⁷ "When God created man, he made him in the likeness of God. Male and female he created them, and he blessed them and named them Man when they were created." (Genesis 5:1-2.)¹¹⁸ --CCC

2335 Each of the two sexes is an image of the power and tenderness of God, with equal dignity though in a different way. The union of man and woman in marriage is a way of imitating in the flesh the Creator's generosity and fecundity: "Therefore a man leaves his father and his mother and cleaves to his wife, and they become one flesh." (Genesis 2:24.)¹²¹ All human generations proceed from this union. (Compare Genesis 4:1-2, 25-26; Gen 5:1)¹²²–CCC

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