Cheryl Schatz

Kay,

The more I read Gen. 1-3, the more it seems apparent to me, that comparing Adam and Eve’s marriage to anyone else’s marriage since then, is like comparing apples to rocks. Eve was not one of Adam’s daughters. Eve was his ‘ezer kenegdo.’

This is exactly right! In the issue of marriage I don’t think that we can use Eve as an example of all women since Eve is not one of Adam’s daughters. It is when we treat her as if she is one of us (a woman with Adam’s sin nature) that we can misunderstand what was written about her. I believe that we need to start thinking outside the box about Eve and understanding her from the perspective of a sinless woman who fell into sin through deception and then went on with her life with her eyes opened but without the rebellious sin nature that was in her husband. If ever there was a recipe for strife this would be it. But they managed to stay together and have kids together. There is probably a lot that we can learn from this example but one thing that we cannot forget is that Eve was not tainted by Adam’s sin nature. If we forget that we can come to some wrong conclusions.

This is just another area where we need to rethink our presuppositions about the Scripture. Rethinking also stretches me as I try hard to work off my own prejudices and presuppositions so that I can see what the Scripture itself says.