Cheryl

One last thing, if the complementarians can get away with teaching that Eve did not receive the command from God and God only wanted to communicate with her second-hand through her husband, then they use that point to say that women are not to teach God’s word because they were never given God’s word directly in the garden of Eden. I think this is a point that has not been dealt with in a decisive way by egalitarians and my talk refutes the myth that Eve didn’t hear from God directly and that she either added to God’s word when she talked to the serpent or messed up a very simple command mixing up what God said with what Adam commanded her. I think my refutation gives a death blow to that reasoning.

After my talk in PA, several women came up to me afterward to tell me that my reasoning had given them a sense of freedom to know that God really does give his word into the hands of women too along with men.  They each bought a copy of WIM to take home but expressed their gratitude to me that they now believe that God did give the commandment in the garden to both the man and the woman.