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Just a clarification – I do not believe that either view directly tips the scale toward hierarchalism. I don’t know exactly if Susanna does. I do know her anxiety level about the resolution is far greater than mine.

There is only one negative implication to Susanna’s view in my mind. Susanna’s view leads to the inevitable conclusion that both Adam and Eve were kicked out of the garden by God in Gen 3:24. I fear that may leave complementarians with a flanking manuever – Eve was just as much a cause of sin as Adam. Even then, I don’t think that argument has much weight. So in the long run, I am not too worried about hierachy being “proven” either way. My persistence in this debate is simply due to the fact that I think my gramatical view is correct. But I don’t fear that complementarian philosophy will win the day if I’m wrong. Frankly, at the risk of being redundant, I don’t think the resolution to this debate has any impact at all on the hierarchy debate.

I don’t want to speak precisely for Susanna but I will sumarize her fear to the best of my knowledge. I believe she thinks that the complementarian arguments about order of creation, and even more so, order of interrogation, have significant weight in proving hierarchy. Or maybe more precisely, I believe she thinks that if my view of ha’adam were accepted, it would at least enbolden comps and at worse, give them offensive ammunition for their arguments. She can (and has) provide much more substance and focus to that summary.