Cheryl Schatz

lmb,
You said:

Cheryl, I’m having trouble with this statement:
“God gave a responsibility to Adam before Eve was created and that was of guarding the garden. To the one whom much has been given, much will be required. God called Adam to account first because He had more to account for. He was the first created and He was responsible for the safety of the garden as the one who was there when the garden was created. He was the one who saw the tree of life created as well as the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.”
Isn’t’ that exactly the basis of the comp argument that Adam was the leader and therefore men are to be in charge?
What am I missing? Please help me understand!

No, there is nothing in the account that says that Adam was the “leader”. However before Eve was created Adam needed to understand that he needed a flesh and blood mate who was like him so that he would accept her as as his own and not a separate creation from him. If God had made Eve out of the dirt at the same time as Adam, I believe that many men would declare us of a different sort than they are and not equal to them as humans. Sigh(!)

The fact is that while Adam was going through the process that would enable him to see Eve as his equal, God did some acts of creation before Adam’s eyes that protected Adam from believing the lie that they could become “like” God as Creator. Adam was responsible for this knowledge and God made him the protector of the garden as Adam was the only human ever to have witnessed the creative acts of God. Adam’s knowledge made him more responsible but it didn’t make Eve to be created a follower and Adam to be created a leader. That is foreign to the account.

Does this help? If you don’t have a copy of my DVD set, the first DVD sets this point up visually to show that more knowledge = more personal responsibility. More knowledge does not equal rulership over others.