Cheryl Schatz

gengwall,
You said:

I should add that the conversation has evolved a little since then. I am now far more concerned that Cheryl apparently believes that Gen 3:16 has nothing to say about wives. We may have to work backward from there.

It isn’t that I think that Genesis 3:16 has nothing to say about wives. However I believe that it is inaccurate to take post-fall weaknesses of women and put these weakness back onto Eve.

Are we going to find the truth about Eve by looking in the box? Is Eve exactly like us?

The truth claim of many complementarians is that Eve is exactly like all of us and because of this they have put her into our box and come up with things like:
1. Eve sinned by adding to God’s word
2. Eve tried to seduce Adam
3. Eve deceived Adam
4. Eve’s desire was to control Adam and take him captive to her own will.

I do not think that we will understand Eve and God’s description of humanity’s first woman to judge her by placing her in our box.

So perhaps we can ask ourselves how Eve was the same as all women and how she was different. Did she operate with a sin nature? Has that sin nature been transferred to all other women? What does the Scripture say?