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Have you ever heard a woman use Genesis 3:16 to say that the reason women experience pain in childbearing is because God cursed Eve? In other words, have you ever heard someone blame God for the pain that women experience in giving birth?
These are the sorts of questions we are looking at in this episode of the One Verse Podcast.
The Text of Genesis 3:16
To the woman He said: “I will greatly multiply your sorrow and your conception; In pain you shall bring forth children; Your desire shall be for your husband, And he shall rule over you.”
In this discussion of Genesis 3:16 we look at:
- The words used for childbearing in Genesis 3:16
- The word used for pain in Genesis 3:16
- The question of whether or not God inflicts pain on women
- The truth that God does not curse or hurt women
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I blamed Eve. 3 times. ?(and thanked God for this miracle of new life .)
Of course its not literal at all in it’s context or the type of literature that is it.The only curse in the text is on the ground not the people.
Can’t you just skip Genesis 3 and know that God created everything, and therefore he is responsible for the pain of childbirth? Seems more direct.
Not sure anyone will see this comment but I wish someone could further explain God saying, “I” will multiply your pain. The rest of this article makes sense and I want to believe what it is saying but I’m not convinced yet that God is not causing the pain.
Hi, I wonder why Eve received the punishment of death along with Adam if she did almost nothing wrong (as you say) by eating the forbidden fruit and giving some to her husband. Death seems like a harsh punishment for someone who did almost nothing wrong.
Could her act be a snubbing of God, a kind of “you can’t tell me what to do?” It was the sin of pride was it not? Saying, in effect that she did not need God for knowledge or wisdom.
I wonder if you aren’t letting Eve off too easily. Treating her with kid gloves. It seems God would be unjust for sending death upon her if she is hardly guilty of anything, and we know that God can’t be unjust, so maybe He knew her heart better than the text suggests to us and she is guilty of more than you suggest.
What do you think?