Genesis
3:17 ¶ And unto Adam he said, Because
thou hast hearkened unto the voice of thy wife, and hast eaten of the tree, of
which I commanded thee, saying, Thou shalt not eat of it: cursed is the ground
for thy sake; in sorrow shalt thou eat of it all the days of thy life; 18 Thorns also and thistles shall it bring forth
to thee; and thou shalt eat the herb of the field; 19 In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat
bread, till thou return unto the ground; for out of it wast thou taken: for
dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return.
Here is one that
fundamentalists love and their sentiment would almost be humorous if it didn’t
have such tragic effects. Verse 17 is used to say that any man who takes advice
from his wife is disobeying God and deserves any negative consequence. Adam is
judged for disobeying God in taking the very bad advice from his wife to do it.
Certainly, any woman or man who follows their spouse in disobedience to God is
foolish. But, Godly advice from your wife is something you should always
seriously consider as her co-heir in the grace of life.
This verse is no
more a command to not do whatever your wife tells you to do any more than the
following verse is a command to obey her in all things.
Genesis
21:12 And God said unto Abraham, Let it
not be grievous in thy sight because of the lad, and because of thy bondwoman;
in all that Sarah hath said unto thee, hearken unto her voice; for in Isaac
shall thy seed be called.
As Eve faced a
judgment upon childbirth, that which perhaps had been easy and pain-free now
being a time of pain and travail, so
Adam’s employment as a worker of the ground and caretaker of God’s creation was
going to be accompanied now by sweat, toil, and much effort. Also, here is the
judgment of death, over which Satan has so much power.
Hebrews
2:14 Forasmuch then as the children are
partakers of flesh and blood, he also himself likewise took part of the same;
that through death he might destroy him that had the power of death, that is,
the devil;
Adam and Eve will
share in these judgments as man and woman share in the pains and agonies of
life on earth.
Hebrews
9:27 And as it is appointed unto men
once to die, but after this the judgment:
Genesis
3:20 ¶ And Adam called his wife’s name
Eve; because she was the mother of all living.
Acts
17:26 And hath made of one blood all
nations of men for to dwell on all the face of the earth, and hath determined
the times before appointed, and the bounds of their habitation;
All human beings
are descended from Eve. Modern science, even in its limited perspective of
evidence and opinion that overthrows one set of theories after another in their
attempts to explain history without admitting to God, understands that there is
one human woman who is the mother of all people alive today. They call her
“Mitochondrial Eve.”
All human beings
are related, cousins, in a manner of speaking. So the New Guinea hill person
and the gaucho-cattle ranch worker in Argentina and Uruguay, the Bantu in
Africa, and the proudest American are all distant cousins.
Adam had not lost
the right to name the world around him. He gave names to all creatures and here
he gave a name to his wife. This has been a source of confusion in modern
times. Some skeptics take the classifications of animals made up after the
Bible was put to paper as a reason to say the Bible is in error. They read back
their own naming of creatures back into the Bible and then object to God’s
classifications.
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