Cheryl Schatz

gengwall,

Oh my!!! This is stark double speak and I must protest. Everyone talks about how Eve’s “desire” represents something that all wives will gravitate towards just as Adam’s “rule” is applied to husbands. Eve has always been discussed as representative of wives. But now, suddenly, when the issue is raised that maybe this “desire” is negative, wives are no longer in view?

Let me put it this way. Eve is like all wives when viewed regarding the good things that women can bring to the marriage about (like typically women seem to want to please their husbands and long to be married) but Eve is also not like all wives who unlike Eve struggle with our sin nature that causes us to be less than perfect beings. We as women are all flawed just like our husbands.

So to recap, Eve was a woman like us, but she was not a rebellious sinner like us. If I am wrong about that and God, Eve or any of the apostles described Eve as a rebellious sinner with a rebellious sin nature, then I stand to be corrected.

I see it as important because Jesus came through a woman yet had no sin nature. Jesus came through a sinner (Mary) yet her seed brought no sin nature. If Genesis helps us understand that, then the account of Eve’s fall into sin will help us in other areas too.