Kristen

Jeremiah, there are other ways to explain sin coming through Adam than “federal headship.” Such a concept is never explained in the Bible. Genesis 3 and 1 Timothy 2 both say, however, that Eve sinned through deception, while Adam sinned even though he wasn’t deceived. Was not his eyes-wide-open, fully aware sin more culpable than Eve’s? Paul said that the woman “has come to be in the transgression” through being deceived.” This would mean that the transgression was Adam’s through his fully aware choice.

The rest of what you talk about appears to be a blaming of all modern social problems on the disruption of some assumed social order that you believe was God-planned and God-ordained. But there is actually nothing in the Genesis stories (especially if you read Genesis 2 in light of Genesis 1) that shows that the man was designed by God to be in charge over the woman. That state of affairs didn’t happen till Genesis 3, when the Fall resulted in the man starting to rule over the woman. In the beginning it was not so.

Nor is there any evidence that female functional equality is what has brought about modern social problems. Surely you are aware of all the historical social problems that female functional equality has addressed? Women used to be treated as mere chattel, property to be used by men and to serve men. Married women used to have no personhood in the eyes of the law– they were mere appendages of their husbands. Fathers were distant and removed from their children because interacting with children was “women’s work.”

Modern social problems are not all women’s fault, any more than Adam had any right to blame Eve for his own actions. But that is what Adam did, and that is what the sons of Adam continue to do.

Your comment about God using women just like He uses donkeys, because He can’t find a good man to use, is more than insulting. It’s unScriptural. There’s nothing in the text that says God raised up Deborah, Miriam, Huldah, Esther, Abigail, Priscilla, Euodia, Syntyche, Chloe, Nympha, Lydia, Phoebe or Junia because He couldn’t find a man. He gifted and designed these women for the callings He gave them, just as He does men.