Why is it hard for man and woman to get along in marriage? Why cant man and woman just be happy without any problems? To the woman He said, Yet your desire will be for your husband (or, you will always lust for your husband), and He will rule over you. Then to Adam He said, Because you have listen to the voice of your wife, and have eaten from the tree about which I commanded you saying, You shall not eat from it.....Cursed is the ground because of you; By the sweat of your brow you will eat bread, til you return to the ground, because from it you were taken; for you are dust, and dust you shall return. -Ge 3:16:1b, 19b YOUR DESIRE...HE WILL RULE...Just as the woman and her seed will engage in war with the serpent, i.e., Satan (Ge 3:15), because of sin and the curse, the man and the woman will face struggles in their own relationship. Sin has turned the harmonious system of God-ordained roles into distasteful struggles of self-will. Lifelong companions, husbands and wives, will need Gods help in getting along as a result. The womans desire will be to lord it over her husband, but the husband will rule by divine design (Eph 5:22-25). BECAUSE YOU HAVE LISTENED...The reason given for the curse on the ground and human death is that man turned his back on the voice of God, to follow his wife in eating that from which God had ordered him to abstain from. The woman sinned because she acted independently of her husband, disdaining his leadership, counsel, and protection. The man sinned because he abandoned his leadership and followed the wishes of his wife. In both cases, God intended roles were reversed.
Posted on: Mon, 12 Jan 2015 00:57:16 +0000