Lin

Cheryl,

Come to think of it..what makes you think God saying to Eve: “He will rule over you” is bad? Does God SAY it is bad? No. We just know such a thing is BAD and part of the warning to Eve.

But some cannot see that her ‘turning’ to Adam is a bad choice? Some old translations interpreted it as ‘alliance’ after the interpretation of turning… as in Eve and Adam form an alliance after the fall. According to you, that is a good thing. But it is NOT. After all, in this alliance, he would rule over her and she would be a doormat and subsequently when Patriarchy is ingrained, women would revert to manipulation tactics for such things as having a male child.

Our human relationships are never to be more than our relationship with God.

Perhaps it would be good for us all to contemplate the horrors of what the fall brought us and exactly what changed after the fall.