Paula

Nicole, I’ve posed that same question in my articles:

“To turn completely around and curse her with servitude to the man who had blamed her and God for his sin and failed to step in while she was being tempted, would be to say God rewards poor leadership and passing blame, even to the point of blaming God. Adam had proven himself disqualified to lead and unworthy of God’s blessing with rulership over the one he failed to lead and protect.”

I strongly believe that the reason God showed Adam the animals before creating Eve was to emphasize Eve’s superiority to them. When Adam exclaimed about Eve that she was “bone of my bone and flesh of my flesh”, he was saying that she was his equal, not inferior like the animals.