pinklight

“So i ask this question to egalitarians. Do you agree that there are different roles/functions for Adam and Eve? Can we agree that your view of total equality and my view of authority are both read into this text from our greater understanding of the bible.”

Do you mean, Mark, like roles/functions that cannot be interchangeable because it would be sin? No. Could Eve protect the garden? Could Adam be a help to Eve? Would either be sinning if either did such things? Could Eve protect the garden just as well as Adam and could Adam be a help to Eve just as well as Eve could be to Adam? These thing can be interchangable because we are talking about human capability made in God’s image (total equality), not capability determined by gender. So now, is total equality read into the Gen text? How can it be without prohibition or lines drawn? And who’s drawing the lines? In other words what’s read into the Gen text is (comp) prohibition and lines are drawn here and there when such boundaries are not given by the words of the text itself.

What’s total equality? It’s the lack of prohibition because it’s TOTAL. So what’s read into the Gen text? Your view of authority which comes down to – prohibiton or drawing lines where they are not drawn by the words of the text themselves. “Roles/functions” (like guarding the garden and being a help) don’t matter unless it can be proven that they are prohibitons for one sex so as to be a matter of sin.