Kristen

Craig asked,

“Does an appeal to Adam and Eve ensure that something is normative for today?”

2 Cor. 11:3 shows Paul appealing to the deceit of Eve in conjunction with a problem specific to the Corinthian church at that time.

1 Cor 11 invokes the creation (man is the head – source- of woman) in order to support the time-and-culture-specific impact of what a person wore or didn’t wear on his head, on his or her source.

So no– invoking the creation account (or any other OT text) does not automatically make the NT teaching universal and timeless. In fact, Paul specifically says that the OT stories are for examples to us– not for grounding of truths– but I don’t have that reference at my fingertips.