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gengwall

2010-03-23

gengwall, you didn’t answer these questions:

How was Eve the same as all women and how she was different? Did she operate with a sin nature? Has that sin nature (Eve’s) been transferred to all other women?

Same – she is a woman and has the same physiology as all women. Different – she is not a daughter of Adam.

So no, I do not believe that Eve “transferred” anything sin wise to the sons or daughters of Adam. Sin comes through Adam. But femaleness does not come through Adam. That comes through Eve. If there is a sin inclination that is uniquely male, and Gen 3:16 testifies to that, why would we not think that there is some corresponding sin inclination that is uniquely female also testified to in that passage?

I will give a more thorough outline of my view maybe tonight. I will start with what I find inconceivable in your view. That is that Gen 3:16 ONLY predicts a virtue in wives and that it ONLY predicts a vice in husbands. I find that not only groundless in scripture but devoid of reason. God is simply not that biased.

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