(from my journal, 8/23/15) Today's devotion via DEVOS app (available for iOS and Android) was quite eye-opening. The passage reads:
You will desire to control your husband but he will rule over you.
--Genesis 3:16
The corresponding explanation said that Eve's punishment for eating the apple in the Garden of Eden was this (husband rule over wife). Instead of harmony between man and woman, we'll now have the battle of the sexes -- "the man who was to lovingly care for and nurture his wife would now seek to rule her, and the wife would desire to wrest control from her husband." TO BE CLEAR, Genesis 3:16 IS NOT A BIBLICAL COMMAND FOR MEN TO DOMINATE WOMEN! (Or vice versa for that matter.) Rather, what was written in the verse was a prophecy of the effect of the original sin on the two sexes :( So what then is the ideal relationship of man and woman in marriage? Here's the answer from Ephesians 5: