The Giver

God, the Giver, has created man male and female in order to provide him with an understanding of both the relational nature of the Trinity, and the relation between God and man. Within the Trinity, for God to be Love, there must be the lover, the lovee, and the love. Thus we have the lover, the initiator, who gives to the lovee, who receives, and that reception becomes a gift back to the lover. And what is passed between them? Love. Thus we have the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. God made us male and female (and gives us children! the physical sign of the love of husband and wife) that we might come to better understand His mystery.

God is always the initiator towards man. He is the Creator, we are the created. We receive His love and His grace, and through receiving are able to then give back to Him, most especially when we conceive His life within us. In order to show us our relationship with Him, He made us male and female (with children!). Who is Man? The one who by giving receives. In order to teach us His role as initiator, as Giver, God had to make a human who was the initiator. Who is Woman? The one who by receiving gives. In order to teach us our role as receiver, as conceiver, God had to make a human who was the receiver and conceiver. It is not that God chose to give one or the other a lesser dignity by having one represent Himself and one represent humanity. Rather, their very natures were created in order that they might have stamped in their very bodies their relation to God. And of course, it is only together, in communion, that they fully image the Trinity, and therefore neither has a lesser dignity.