Sophie2003 Posted July 16, 2020 Group: Members Followers: 1 Topic Count: 2 Topics Per Day: 0.00 Content Count: 2 Content Per Day: 0.00 Reputation: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 07/16/2020 Status: Offline Share Posted July 16, 2020 The Adam and Eve story confuses me sometimes. I understand that Eve ate the apple first, but it seems really unfair that all women have to pay the price for that. It makes me wonder if God views women as inferior to men and wants women to suffer more. It’s really bothering me a lot. What are your opinions on this? Do you think God wants women to be more harshly punished in life or that views women as inferior, or is there an explanation for this? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Omegaman 3.0 Posted July 16, 2020 Group: Graduated to Heaven Followers: 57 Topic Count: 1,546 Topics Per Day: 0.21 Content Count: 10,320 Content Per Day: 1.41 Reputation: 12,323 Days Won: 9 Joined: 04/15/2004 Status: Offline Birthday: 11/05/1951 Share Posted July 16, 2020 I am not sure that one punishment was worse than the other. Living on a cursed earth with toil, sickness and death, are hardly get out of jail free cards. Should all women pay the price for Eve's sin? Yes, but not because they deserve it, in that sense, it is unfair, but it is even, as all people pay the price for the sins of the first couple. To be sure though, I think that if the first couple, which was created without sin or a sin nature, who had direct contact with God, in a perfect environment where life was easy, probable any of us would have done likewise, so we still deserve it, as we all rebel against our creator. What really makes if fair though, is that God is good, wise, and does not sin. Whatever He does, is the right thing by definition. Since we are His creation, He is free and right to do with us as He pleases. If you want to talk about unfairness, thing of God, coming to Earth to live as a man, leaving the comfort of Heaven. He gave up His Godly attributes, to live in his own cursed creation, to suffer as we do, to be tempted as we are. Yet, he did not sin, and was treated with contempt by the powers that be, and ultimately died a horrible and unjust death at the hands of those who owed Him everything. That is unfair. To top it off, He came to earth specifically so that He could do these things, live a life we could not live, and suffer and pay a price we could not pay, all so that we would be spared the justice of being eternally separated from God. That he would suffer the greatest unfairness for His enemies, is the greatest act of love. We can complain, or we can be thankful that He died to offer us a way back to God. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
john1 Posted July 16, 2020 Group: Senior Member Followers: 4 Topic Count: 41 Topics Per Day: 0.02 Content Count: 686 Content Per Day: 0.30 Reputation: 221 Days Won: 0 Joined: 12/16/2017 Status: Offline Share Posted July 16, 2020 19 hours ago, Sophie2003 said: or that views women as inferior Galatians chapter 3 verse 28 There is neither Jew nor Gentile, neither slave nor free, nor is there male and female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus. I don't know if this helps. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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