Cheryl Schatz

gengwall,
You said:

So, we are left here then with the portrayal of the virtuous Eve/wives and the villianous Adam/husbands undenied. How unfortunate. I wonder, Cheryl, if you realize how much you play into radical feminist hands with this conclusion. The idea that males are inherently, morally flawed and that women are inherently, morally superior is one prominent feminist manifesto, especially amongst Christians. It is borderline misandrous.

You would have a point if this is what I believed. Alas all of us are of our father Adam and there are no completely virtuous women except for Eve and no completely villainous men. Somehow I don’t think you get what I am saying. I am not saying that males are inherently morally flawed. I am saying that all of us are inherently morally flawed. But we cannot trace this back to Eve but to Adam not because Adam was a sole ruler in the world like comps make him out to be, but because he chose to sin in rebellion.

I think the problem with understanding is that you believe so strongly that the actions of Adam and Eve inherently summarize the relationships of all of adam’s children that you cannot separate Eve from your wife or me or all women. But gengwall, I can testify to you that I am not of the same “stuff” as Eve. I am not sinless and my best does not compare to her sinless nature. Also if it weren’t for Eve no woman would qualify to produce the Messiah because no woman is sinless. Only through Eve can the Messiah come and if we cannot see a difference between Eve and all of Adam’s offspring, how can we understand that?

I would really love to have this conversation transferred to the new post as I think that new people would be more likely to read the comments there than on an older post here. So if you are willing to transfer your comments over there, I will too 🙂