QUO VADIS? Moderator
Posts : 172 Join date : 2009-11-08
| Subject: When Eve was created was Adam given authority over her? Sat Feb 27, 2010 4:28 pm | |
| No. Adam and Eve were not given different instructions before the fall. They were jointly commanded to exercise dominion over the earth. Eve was created so that Adam would not be alone. He needed a partner. His “alone-ness” was “not good.” Hierarchy in human relationships came as a result of sin. - Quote :
- Gen 1:26 God said, Let Us [Father, Son, and Holy Spirit] make mankind in Our image, after Our likeness, and let them have complete authority over the fish of the sea, the birds of the air, the [tame] beasts, and over all of the earth, and over everything that creeps upon the earth. AMP
There is no hierarchy in the Godhead. Mankind was created in their image. | |
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QUO VADIS? Moderator
Posts : 172 Join date : 2009-11-08
| Subject: Re: When Eve was created was Adam given authority over her? Sat Feb 27, 2010 4:35 pm | |
| What about Gen. 3:16? - Quote :
- Your desire shall be for your husband and he shall rule over you.
This verse shows the consequesnces of sin. Hierarchy in relationships came after sin. This was not God's original intention for male and female relationships. The woman's desire for her husband is not primarily sexual desire. In Genesis 4:7 we see the rare word 'teshuqah" which refers to sin's "desire" to control Cain. The woman would desire to control the man. This is easily seen in certain relationships. That instead her husband would rule over her is the judgement of how things will be and not necessarily of how they should be. The man with superior strength will dominate her. We see this in our patriarchal societies of today. Sin brought in the harmful struggles of 2 wills in one relationship. Where before perfect harmony and equality in commission to dominate and replenish the earth, now domination of one over another. | |
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Kim
Posts : 81 Join date : 2009-11-29
| Subject: Re: When Eve was created was Adam given authority over her? Sun Mar 28, 2010 8:43 pm | |
| It does seem to read that way. | |
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