Lin

“I agree with gengwell, Gen 3:16 is not making women doormats. It’s showing her corrupted nature within the marriage. Her desire will be to usurp her husbands authority, and his sinful response will be to oppress his wife. Look at what i wrote regarding the grammatical similarities with Gen 4:7.”

You cannot get ‘usurp her husbands authority’ out of that passage. Sorry, it is not there. Why? Because he had no authority over her to begin with. YOu cannot usurp something that does not exist. It is simply not in there. God never once told Adam he was in charge of Eve. YOu have to read that INTO the creation account. As a matter of fact, God would not have told them it was to be a One Flesh Union. He would have made it clear it was an authority/follower relationship. He would not have given both dominion.

And by the way, that is a fairly recent interpretation. For thousands of years it was taught that male authority came AFTER the Fall. Not before. But then as folks became more literate and could read for themselves they realized that was teaching sin as a virtue so you guys had to do something so you invented creation order to mean authority. That is becoming more and more of a problem so now they are mapping the Trinity to human relationships. I am almost afraid to find out what they will do next!

Did you look at the translation chart I linked to earlier about the translations of teshuqa over the centuries?