truthseeker

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I don’t know if I can say definitively that Eve’s desire is connected to her pain in childbirth any more than we can say Adam’s rule is connected to the ground being cursed and Adam’s having to work it now. It is the word ‘yet’ that makes you think this, I know. It isn’t the only possible logical conclusion.

As for Eve’s track record, all track records begin somewhere. Adam’s began earlier with his choices, Eve’s could be stated as having begun with her deception (the point at which she veered ‘of the path’)-which also bore consequences even though it was deception and not blatant willful rebellion.

It is true that Eve didn’t stay deceived, but that by no means inoculates her from the consequences of her actions born of deception.

As for seeing the possibility for a woman’s desire for her husband being evil or wrong; yes, I can easily see it. We see it all the time in women who desire husbands for their money, for their ability to help father children, for their ability to lend status, for their ‘name’ or fame, etc. Not all that wives may desire their husbands for is always good or right. It is the motivation behind the wife’s desire that determines the righteousness or lack thereof of her desire.