Cheryl Schatz

Lin,
On another post you said:

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.

The Hebrew term means to exercise dominion over as ruler tyrant, fearful dominion. This type of rule is lording it over another human being and this was usurping the rule from God that He had over Eve. It is a sinful action by the definition of the word that God uses.

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.

The term “for” as in longing for Adam is the term where the turning comes from. This places the longing toward the husband:

The sources that I checked all say that the word means longing, desire or craving.

Nothing says that this is a bad choice that she should remained glued to her husband in marriage and have his children.