Lin

“In a final knock against the woman, Ray Ortlund says that God gives the woman up. Ortlund sees Eve’s decision to accept the deception of the serpent as an act of insubordination towards the man – a sin that scripture never charges Eve with – and this act of insubordination causes God to give her up to her sin.”

Once again, man centered religion.

“If this is the true sense, then, in giving the woman up to her insubordinate desire, God is penalizing her with domination by her husband.”

No, God is telling us what will happen because the wife will turn toward her husband isntead of God. Domination by the husband is part of his sinful nature.

“Ortlund is saying that the woman sinned before she ate the fruit by having an attitude of insubordination towards her husband. In fact he implies that her insubordination was so bad that she usurped what belonged to the man alone.”

and

“Eve usurped Adam’s headship and led the way into sin.”

Ortlund cannot see how sinful his view of this passage really is. He is looking for a scape goat interpretation to make Adam not look so bad and to justify his views of rulership over women. It is nothing less than a carnal desire for power.

Another point: Eve was going to have children anyway. Now she will have more, quicker and in pain. However, Adam now has to deal with cursed land his sinful desire will be to dominate his wife and she allows it by turning to Adam instead of God.