Cheryl Schatz

Hannah,

If a women saw a man being deceived, and she sat back and went along with it she would be in sin. If she points the deception to him is she taking authority over him?

What we are all expected to read into this is that this applies to men only. Anything a woman does, does not imply authority. Anything a man does implies authority. It is the classic reading into the text what you expect to find. I am almost certain that if the text said that Adam scratched her ear and the text didn’t say that Eve also scratched his ear, his scratching would be taken as a sign of his authority over her!