Cheryl Schatz

Don,

Yes, the literal Greek is male and female in Galatians 3:28.  It is very good to pay attention to the words the way that God breathed them.

You said:

“curse of the law” I see as not saying the law is a curse, but is referring to the curses in the law for not obeying it; these are given in Deu as blessings and curses or in covenant/contract language benefits for compliance and penalties for non-compliance.

Yes indeed the law isn’t cursed at all.  It is those trying to live by getting righteous through the law because it is an “all or nothing” law.  James said:

James 2:10  For whoever keeps the whole law and yet stumbles in one point, he has become guilty of all.

None of us are capable of keeping the entire law.  Only Jesus ever kept the entire law perfectly.

Good thoughts, Don!  Of course the bottom line is that the complementarian view that limits these verses to salvation alone, leaving no real equality in the outworking of our Christian faith is refuted by the context from the entire book of Galatians.