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I am not a new Christian but it seems like this would be a basic question so that's why I am asking it here.
I recently started reading the Bible and it's the first time I have since I was a kid. I want to take it seriously and really learn the word of God and that is why I need answers to this question. In the Bible, I believe I was reading the NASB version, once Adam and Eve have eaten from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil and God comes to the garden he says to Eve,
To the woman He said,
“I will greatly multiply
Your pain in childbirth,
In pain you will bring forth children;
Yet your desire will be for your husband,
And he will rule over you.”
I don't understand how I can live knowing I am born simply to be ruled over by men no matter what I do. I have only read the very beginning of the Bible and it is the Old Testament so for all I know I am mistaken in how I am thinking. Maybe something is said later on in the New Testament to change this.
So I suppose this is my question, are women permanently punished forevermore by being ruled over by men? OR is it that only once they are married they are to be ruled by their husband, but not by men in general?
If this is true how am I, as a woman, supposed to ever want to get married because I am no slave to anyone and don't wish to be ruled over by a man. I don't see anything deserving in men that they would get the right to rule over women.
If the first is true (that women are permanently punished by being ruled by men) I don't see how I can stay with my religion. I believe everyone deserves punishments for their sin but for our Lord to punish all women to the point where they are born to be ruled over by men seems so wrong I cannot bear to follow Christianity with this weighing over me.
Any comments are welcomed. Thanks.
I am not a new Christian but it seems like this would be a basic question so that's why I am asking it here.
I recently started reading the Bible and it's the first time I have since I was a kid. I want to take it seriously and really learn the word of God and that is why I need answers to this question. In the Bible, I believe I was reading the NASB version, once Adam and Eve have eaten from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil and God comes to the garden he says to Eve,
To the woman He said,
“I will greatly multiply
Your pain in childbirth,
In pain you will bring forth children;
Yet your desire will be for your husband,
And he will rule over you.”
I don't understand how I can live knowing I am born simply to be ruled over by men no matter what I do. I have only read the very beginning of the Bible and it is the Old Testament so for all I know I am mistaken in how I am thinking. Maybe something is said later on in the New Testament to change this.
So I suppose this is my question, are women permanently punished forevermore by being ruled over by men? OR is it that only once they are married they are to be ruled by their husband, but not by men in general?
If this is true how am I, as a woman, supposed to ever want to get married because I am no slave to anyone and don't wish to be ruled over by a man. I don't see anything deserving in men that they would get the right to rule over women.
If the first is true (that women are permanently punished by being ruled by men) I don't see how I can stay with my religion. I believe everyone deserves punishments for their sin but for our Lord to punish all women to the point where they are born to be ruled over by men seems so wrong I cannot bear to follow Christianity with this weighing over me.
Any comments are welcomed. Thanks.