It’s not biblical manhood that men should aspire to but Christlike manhood. If we only speak of biblical manhood, who is our pattern? Abraham? Moses? David? Elijah? With their propensity for deceit, anger, adultery, and violence? No, Jesus alone is our model of redeemed manhood. It’s not biblical womanhood that should inform women but the light of Christ. Much of the Bible operates from a cultural assumption that women are the property of their fathers and husbands. But Jesus elevates women to a status of absolute and independent equality.
