Post #14 of my critique of the Women's Ordination video

Post #14 of my critique of the Women's Ordination video listed below: POINT #11 from the video: There are seven examples in Scripture of women giving birth in connection with a miracle; all these miracle babies that typified Christ were male children. 

I have had a very hard time writing a response to this “point” against women’s ordination.  I think it is because I am not making a correlation between the two subjects. These are the “miracle births that I can think of in scripture, not including Jesus, since the argument assumed that the children typified Christ, I anticipated his miracle birth was not included. Sarah begat Isaac. Rebekah begat Esau and Jacob. Rachel begat Joseph. An unnamed woman begat Samson, Hannah begat Samuel. The woman of Shunem begat a son. Elizabeth begat John the Baptist.  I wouldn’t say that all of these babies typified Christ, but all of these children were male.

One possible idea you could get from this argument is that women do not typify God, so they cannot serve the church in leadership positions.  I see all sorts of problems that could arise from taking this fact to far, but for now maybe we should talk about why this is a fact.  I believe firmly that men and women were both made in God’s image (Genesis 1:26,27 and 5:2) But when you look at scripture as a whole it states things like; God is LIKE a woman who cannot forget her child compared to; God IS a Father.  Why is this?  Do we believe that God is a man? Dr. Richard Davidson writes in FLAME OF YAHWEH pg. 130, “Yahweh is above the polarity of sexuality and is neither male nor female, and displays within his nature both masculine and feminine dimensions.” So why does God clearly identify Himself AS a man, but LIKE a woman. The bible does not seem to be distinct on this point, but many scholars think it has something to do with God making sure he is not identified with the fertility cults of the nations surrounding Israel. Remember most religions had both male and female gods, Baal and Ashtoreth being just one of many couples, although they do all seem to stem from the same origin. If God had identified himself as a woman and a man how many Israelites would have begun to believe that their God was just like everyone else?  But ultimately although we do not believe God is male, he does identify himself as such.

That being said, are men by themselves a complete picture of God? Remember “the adam” is no longer complete. God separated a side from “the adam”, and made a women. By this, I think we can assume that men carry some of God’s characteristics and women carry some of God’s characteristics. Together they are the complete picture of God. If you take the man or the woman out of the equation, although each man or women are all still made in the image of God, a part of illustration God is trying to portray, will be missing.  Would this not be true in the pastorship, as well as in a marriage, parenthood, the office, or whatever work you are doing?