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A Prophecy or Command?

A71

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Law of Nature?
Yes. God laid out various Laws of Nature.
Basic stuff really. The planetary motions,
Laws of propagation, the whole natural world.

Women he made moody, menstrual, and needy. Its their basic nature. Law of nature.

Women and men are just very different. That is nature at work. Simple
 
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Oppression of women is another manifestation of mankind's natural tendency to pervert the Biblical model.
But, as far as the OP is concerned, radical attempts of the feminist movement to denigrate the male role in society are a direct fruit of what God had pronounced upon the woman in Genesis 3.
Regarding those who recognize the natural order of the family which you had observed; social prosperity can be beneficial, but unless such a society implements those aspects of human rights in a way that applies Paul's specific directives in Ephesians 5, they not only fail to emulate the biblical model, but in a more profound way, pervert God's norms for society in general.
 
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I don't really see it as curse. A woman can repent of her sin and refuse to obey men who make unreasonable demands.
But you need to look at it as part of the whole section.
  • increase in pain of childbirth
  • the man rules over the woman
  • the ground is cursed, getting food out of it requires toil; it's got thorns and thistles
  • you eat bread only when sweating
  • you will die
These are punishments. Childbirth, work, and agriculture are all good things, but the punishment turns what should be good bad.

For that reason it's hard to believe that the ruling over woman here is normal. If you believe in a godly submission of women (which I don't), this isn't it. This is the punitive version.
 
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This is news to me.
 
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But he never commands the woman to obey the man. He just states that it will occur.
 
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God is a God of order, not chaos. He makes things in a certain way, to have certain functions. Everything he designs has a design purpose, including the man and the woman. A key part of our design is to propagate. That is our nature. It is a Law of Nature; God says he designed Eve for Adam, and men and women to become one.
Breaking Natural Law can be done by for example homosexuality or bestiality. These are explicitly laid out in Mosaic Law, but they are clearly Laws from creation.
In fact they are very obvious, but God spelt them out because the Canaanites were so perverted he did not want Israel to pick up their ways.
 
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He issued commandments. We obey, if we're smart. I'm not aware he ever told us we had to yield to nature. Remember how he would revive dead people, and then rose again after his own death?
 
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