Arlene

I was thinking about this post this morning and thinking about the command God gave in the garden. His command was, “do not eat from the tree of knowledge of good and evil.” If God commanded the first couple to not eat from the tree. how could the first couple be punished for breaking the order of God in creation, the woman taking the place of the man as head and the man following in submission.

That would make God incredibly unclear as one who gave commands. The serpant also refered to the eating of the tree as the tempation to disobey God. I don’t know how patriarchialists and complimentarians get that sin had to do with the failure of the woman and the man to adhere to their roles.

would not God have been more clear in his commands and said something like this, “Adam, i have made you head and you must not abandon your headship and follow your wife. She is to follow your leadership.”

To me that would be far more clear of a command.