1 Corinthians 11:11-13 - Man is born of woman

11:11,12

As mentioned above, some react against these verses because of a fear that the teaching is that men are superior to women, and men can make use of women. Paul now counters any such ideas. “Woman is not independent of man, nor is man independent of woman”, and all this is “in the Lord”. He then points out the clear creation fact that while woman was created from man, so “man is born of woman”. “But everything comes from God”. We need to look at everything in the light of God being God. We also need to look at Christ for all things, how he showed us how to live. Doing so corrects an awful lot of wrong and mistaken thinking.

11:13

Having given theological arguments, Paul now argues from creation, from the natural order of things. There are no two ways about it, this section (11:1-16) is difficult to interpret precisely, because theological and cultural matters are intertwined with each other. However, there is one point that we can draw from this, this is that what seems obvious from nature is relevant in deciding what is right. For instance, the argument that homosexual acts are not natural has some weight, as does the argument that there are only two sexes.