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God multiplies the
pain of women
in child bearing.
Genesis 3:16
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(Genesis
3:16) - "To the woman
He said, "I will greatly multiply Your pain in childbirth,
In pain you shall bring forth children; Yet your desire shall be
for your husband, And he shall rule over you."
Why would
God increase the pain of childbirth because of Eve's disobedience to
Him? Some think it is an unfair penalty to make all women suffer
for Eve's sin.
The answer lies in two things. First we
must understanding that Eve was the means God commanded to fill the
earth with people. Her union with Adam was supposed to produce
children for the perfect world that God had created. But, Eve
rebelled against God. Since sin brings pain and suffering, it
was a natural consequence that she have pain and suffering in the very
thing for which she was brought forth because she had rebelled against
God.
Second, Adam was her "head."
This is a biblical concept where the male head of the family
represents the family. We see this in Heb. 7:7-10 when Levi, the
distant descendant of Abraham, is said to have paid tithes to
Melchizedek while still in the loins of his Father Abraham even though
Levi wasn't even alive at the time. In other words, Abraham
represented his descendents because he was the "head" of his
family and descendents.
Adam was the "head" of
Eve. When Adam fell, he represented his descendents. They
then inherited the sinful nature that Adam brought upon himself as
well as the effects of sin upon both he and Eve. Hence, their
descendents would suffer the effects of sin in their persons by being
born of sinful parents. The pain of childbirth is simply the
result of that sin.
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