Mark

Dear Egalitarian friends,

Thankyou for your kind words.

I have no quirks in understnading that God judges sins differently. What i am trying to point out is that ALL sin has the same result- seperation from God. So my concern lies in Cheryl believing that Eve could have stayed in the garden because she wasn’t a threat. This is disagree with.

I do believe Eve was deceived into sinning. I do believe Adam was held more accountable. But i don’t beieve that Eve wasn’t banished. If i understand that Eden was where God dwelt on earth with perfect sinless people, then it is incomprehensible to think Eve ‘could’ have stayed in the garden as a sinner in the presence of God. SO therefore they both must have been banished.
It seems far more reasonable to me that ‘the man’ is spoken to for the precise reasons we have already discussed. He ‘listened’ to his wife instead of God. He is held accountable for this. He indeed is the ‘head’ of Eve if i can throw that in. As such God deals with him in this way as the leader.
I am truly intersted in further discussing the idea of ‘head’ as i think Kay brought it up earlier in relation to Corinthians. Any thoughts.