Cheryl

Pinklight,
You are also right in that God cursed the serpent because he deceived the woman.  Yes, it was God who initiated the enmity between the serpent and the woman.  So it is the serpent who attacks the woman, but the woman also goes to battle against the serpent.  In the history of the world it is to be noted that females have been discriminated against.  In many areas female babies have been left to die.  Females have had their genitals mutilated and they have been forbidden to think for themselves as they have been forbidden education.  It has been an all out war.  Why would God initiate this war?  I think it is because he has a plan to use women in the spiritual battle in a very powerful way against the serpent.  When we hold women back from using their spiritual gifts, we hold back part of what God has gifted for the attack against the enemy.  May we never sideline our fighters when the battle is raging.