Mark

Hannah,

You are still missing my point.

The issue is whether Adam had a responsibility that Eve did not. According the Cheryl (which i agree) the answer is yes.

Now what you have said is quite true but ONLY if everyone has the same responsibility to stop deception. Adam did indeed fail to step in and stop the serpent- i agree with that. The question is would Eve have had the same responsibility if the situation was reversed. From what Cheryl has stated the answer has to be no, simply becasue as Cheryl defined it- Adam saw God create and Eve did not. Adam had the mandate to protect the garden, Eve did not.

This therefore is the problem. Cheryl is asserting that Adam had a responsibility that was impossible for Eve to have, but yet Cheryl holds onto an equality of roles and rulership. They seem mutually exclusive to me. Like i said, they were either completely equal in role/function or they were not. You cannot blame Adam for a lack of ‘resposibility’ if in fact you believe that Adam did not have more responsibility than Eve.

Now clearly the Bible teaches that Adam did have more responsibility, and clearly only he was given the mandate to guard the garden. This is clearly a differentiation of roles or functions between the man and the woman is it not?