Whether its your favorite Marvel characters or your own family tree, origin stories matter. One of the many reason slavery was so incredibly destructive is that it cut millions of people off entirely from their roots, leaving them completely incapable of knowing, understanding or exploring their own origin stories. The Genesis story is our origin story, and like all origin stories, it tells us a lot about where we came from and how we got here.
Whether you think that Adam and Eve were real human beings or whether their story is just an allegory, it explains a lot about the modern world and perhaps even more importantly - why men and women seem to be driven by such very different things. While I do believe men and women are different, I believe that mostly stems from where we find our sense of worth and value. I think we each chase something different but if we are not careful, we can just simply trade each other’s “curses.”
Unlike most Evangelicals, I do not believe God cursed us, but rather simply identified the new norm for us, much like a parent might clue their teenager in to the realities in their immediate future the first time they get drunk. The same way a hangover is not our natural state, I believe the point of understanding our origin story is to help us understand how to get back to how things were meant to be before the fall.
Here is an article I wrote exploring Eve’s “curse” in more depth and why I believe it has been purposefully mistranslated for centuries.
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Love & Respect Part 9: Adam & Eve