Theological question: “Are women considered inferior in the Bible because Eve ate the fruit of the Tree before Adam did? Is that why women aren’t allowed to speak a word in church or to teach a man anything? Is a woman supposed to cover her head/hair out of shame for the sins of Eve?”
Christian response…
Actually, it is Adam who incurred the greater culpability, wrath and curse for disobedience, not Eve. It is through Adam that death entered Time, the World; this is why Jesus entered Time through the womb of a virgin woman “to destroy the works of the Devil” (death-Hell-the grave) via the Gospel ordained “before Time began” (Romans 5:12; Genesis 3:15; Matthew 1:18-23; 1 John 3:8b; 2 Timothy 1:8-10); Jesus circumvented the sin-nature passed through Adam’s genome via the virgin birth (Luke 1:35).
Adam incurred greater culpability than Eve because Adam received the command from Elohim to not compromise with evil DIRECTLY from Elohim while Eve received the edict by hearsay from her husband, Adam. If you’ll remember, when Eve relented to Lucifer and compromised, nothing happened in Eden as it was not until Adam disobeyed Elohim and rejected Elohim’s Covenant of Sustenance that Elohim’s wrath was forthcoming and the Adamic curse placed upon mankind (Romans 5:12).
The exalted woman in Scripture,
The woman is highly exalted in Scripture and the authority of the husband over the wife comes with incredible responsibilities for the husband. The husband is to give himself for his wife as Messiah gave Himself for the Church and died for her; the wife is simply commanded to obey/support her husband out of respect for his responsibilities concerning the family unit (Ephesians 5:22-33).
The family and the Trinity,
There is a delineation of authority in the family with the husband as the head, the wife second and the children third. The husband will be held accountable to Elohim for his care and provision for the family entrusted to him. The Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit also model this delineation of authority in the Godhead; though they are all ONE-Elohim and coequal concerning all divine attributes, they agree to this delineation of authority for order and righteousness; therefore, the Trinity acts as a model for the Biblical family unit.
The wife is not lesser than the husband as she is an integral, essential, part of the family unit and the husband is responsible for honoring her and protecting her as the weaker vessel. The Biblical family unit is therefore the bedrock for societal survival and Elohim’s eschatological plan concerning the defeat of Satan and restoration of holiness and peace to His Kingdom.
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