Here's where it began:
Genesis 3:16 (KJV) Unto the woman he said, I will greatly multiply thy sorrow and thy conception; in sorrow thou shalt bring forth children; and thy desire shall be to thy husband, and he shall rule over thee.
Because of the first sin, the woman was to submit to her husband. This doesn't mean all men, to make them second class citizens. Before the 1st sin, there was full equality.
Genesis 2:23-24 (KJV) [SUP]23 [/SUP]And Adam said, This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh: she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man. [SUP]24 [/SUP]Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.
Here's where we're at now:
Romans 8:1-2 (KJV) [SUP]1 [/SUP]There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit. [SUP]2 [/SUP]For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death. [HR][/HR]Romans 6:7 (KJV) For he that is dead is freed from sin.
[HR][/HR]Romans 6:18 (KJV) Being then made free from sin, ye became the servants of righteousness.
[HR][/HR]Romans 6:22 (KJV) But now being made free from sin, and become servants to God, ye have your fruit unto holiness, and the end everlasting life.
[HR][/HR]Galatians 3:28 (KJV) There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither bond nor free, there is neither male nor female: for ye are all one in Christ Jesus.
[HR][/HR]Galatians 5:1 (KJV) Stand fast therefore in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free, and be not entangled again with the yoke of bondage.
[HR][/HR]Colossians 3:10-11 (KJV) [SUP]10 [/SUP]And have put on the new man, which is renewed in knowledge after the image of him that created him: [SUP]11 [/SUP]Where there is neither Greek nor Jew, circumcision nor uncircumcision, Barbarian, Scythian, bond nor free: but Christ is all, and in all.
Freedom from what? Sin! The power of sin, the bondage of sin, and, oh yes, freedom from the curse of sin! The only part of us that's still cursed is our flesh. It's corrupt, it's carnal. But the new man, the inner man is free!
We are now this:
Romans 8:14 (KJV) For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God.
[HR][/HR]Romans 8:19 (KJV) For the earnest expectation of the creature waiteth for the manifestation of the sons of God.
[HR][/HR]Philippians 2:15 (KJV) That ye may be blameless and harmless, the sons of God, without rebuke, in the midst of a crooked and perverse nation, among whom ye shine as lights in the world;
[HR][/HR]1 John 3:1 (KJV) Behold, what manner of love the Father hath bestowed upon us, that we should be called the sons of God: therefore the world knoweth us not, because it knew him not.
[HR][/HR]1 John 3:2 (KJV) Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it doth not yet appear what we shall be: but we know that, when he shall appear, we shall (all) be like him; for we shall see him as he is.
It's unanimous..... we're the sons of God..... equal, with exception that the wife submit to her husband.