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A God-honoring society will likewise prefer male leadership in civil and other spheres. Since the woman was created as a helper to her husband, as the bearer of children, and as a “keeper at home”, the God-ordained and proper sphere of dominion for a wife is the household and that which is connected with the home.
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God's sovereignty, as the right to exercise his ruling power over his creation, is contingent upon his creation. God's sovereignty only takes effect once creation exists for it to be expressed upon. If the sovereignty of God is considered one of his attributes, it is a temporal one. [9]
Art historian Mati Meyer says society's views of women are observable in the differing renderings of Eve in art over the centuries. Meyer explains: "Genesis 2–3 recounts the creation of man and the origins of evil and death; Eve, the temptress who disobeys God's commandment, is probably the most widely discussed and portrayed figure in art."
Divine right of kings, divine right, or God's mandation, is a political and religious doctrine of political legitimacy of a monarchy in Western Christianity up untill the Enlightenment. It is also known as the divine-right theory of kingship .
However, in later Judaism a more "national" view was assigned to God's Kingship in which the awaited Messiah may be seen as a liberator and the founder of a new state of Israel. [108] The term "Kingdom of God" does not appear in the Old Testament, although "his Kingdom" and "your Kingdom" are used in some cases when referring to God. [109]
Both before and during biblical times, the roles of women in society were severely restricted. [65] Nonetheless, in the Bible, women are depicted as having the right to represent themselves in court, [66]: 56–62 the ability to make contracts, [66]: 63–67 and the rights to purchase, own, sell, and inherit property.
"Even civil society organizations left women's issues off the agenda. At this level, traditional leaders also have a vested interest that generally opposes women's interests". [103] Theorists believe that having a setback in government policies would be seen as catastrophic to the overall progress of women in government.