Cheryl Schatz

Gazza,
You asked:

If you are going to post in more depth on this in future I won’t press you too hard now but it has always seemed to me that “”I will greatly increase your pains in childbearing; with pain you will give birth to children.” was a punishment. If not how is it fair that someone innocent suffers directly from the hand of God? This is not the just God that I am familiar with, what am I missing here?

There is a way to understand the text with the exact words used that can help us to understand what God was doing to the woman and why it was not a punishment. Your questions are very worthwhile questions and deserve a whole post to address them. I will try to get to it either next post of the one after that. I think you will find the information thought-provoking.