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“Egalitarians argue that there is no creation order in Gen,”

Nonsense. What we argue is this: the fact Adam was created first has no bearing on the marriage relationship and absolutely does not establish any form of hierarchy, either in Genesis, 1 Corinthians, or any other place in the bible. On the contrary, order of “creation” (i.e. birth) was explicitely overturned as a basis for hierarchy in several famous biblical accounts.

Anyone who believes order universally denotes hierarchy has to explain, at the very least, two glaring exceptions: why do the animals not have authority over humans and why did God choose David as King. Once they tackle those two seemingly incontrovertible rebuttals of the order=hierarchy theory, they must explain why Jesus, on several occasions, completely flipped the order paradigm upside down.

So, you see, we do not deny the order of creation in Genesis. But as far as its relation to marriage, or gender based authority in general, based on the truth in the bible including both godly decisions and the teaching of Jesus, we are led, and even admonished, to exclaim “so what”!