Did you ever wonder why God decided to leave us sinful people here on this earth and send his son to die for us? I mean, he could have easily just scrapped the universe and started over right? That’s one of the many odd questions that really don’t matter much here on earth, but will be fun to ask God when we see him on the other side of this life.
Today I was reading through Genesis and noticed an interesting phrase:
Genesis 3:16 Unto the woman he said, I will greatly multiply thy sorrow and thy conception; in sorrow thou shalt bring forth children; and thy desire shall be to thy husband, and he shall rule over thee.
It’s common knowledge that God has placed the man as the head of the home. Not better than the wife, just a different role. Somebody has to lead and God decided it should be the man.
However, it is interesting that in this verse, Eve did not have to follow her husbands leadership it seems until after the fall because that was part of her curse. It just makes me wonder what things would have been like in the husband wife relationship if man has not cast himself into a sin nature.
What do you think the wife’s role was before the fall? Equal? Leader? Something completely different that I didn’t even mention?
Related posts:
February 25th, 2010
O comments at "A Few “What Ifs…” From the Bible"
Comment Now!