Fundamental Beliefs of Seventh-day Adventists

Just as Father, Son, and Holy Spirit are God,
male and female together are to make up "man."
And like the Godhead, though they are to be one,
they are not the same in function. They are equal in
being, in worth, but not identical in person (cf.
John 10:30; 1 Cor. 11:3). Their physiques are
complementary, their functions cooperative.
Both genders are good (Gen. 1:31), and so are
their different roles. The family and the home are
built upon the fact of sexual differentiation. God
could have propagated life on earth without
creating male and female, as is demonstrated in the
asexual reproduction of some forms of animal life.
But God made "two individuals, identical in
general form and characteristics, but each
containing within itself something lacking in the
other and complementary to the other."[2] A world
made up exclusively of members of either sex
would not be complete. True fulfillment can come
only in a society that involves both male and
female. Equality is no question here, for both are
essential.
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