The Divine Homotimy between the Two Sexes
The Divine Homotimy between the Two Sexes

Summary/Abstract: The Orthodox Church has remained faithful to the teachings of the Saviour Christ and the Holy Tradition. It categorically preached equality of honour between man and woman. Both man and woman are made in the image and likeness of God, as the book of Genesis testifies. Recently, there has been a state of uncertainty regarding the equality between men and women, the status that women have in contemporary society. The feminist movement is slowly gaining ground, considering itself a struggle for equality, freedom and justice. In support of this divine equality between man and woman, we will turn to science, more precisely, to embryology. When a child is born, boy or girl, it remains a miracle blessed by God. From the moment the egg is fertilized by the sperm and the formation of the human zygote, until the moment of birth and appearance of the child, all ontogenetic moments enjoy the perfection with which God built the Universe and the human being. Next, I will refer to gametogenesis which defines the set of successive transformations of the chromosomal material that will lead to the formation of gametes. God has imprinted divine equality so the baby will inherit an equal number of chromosomes from the mother and father. All this is done in perfect equality within the meiotic or reductional division, thus allowing the restoration of the diploid chromosomal set and taking over the genetic traits of both parents.

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