social justice

Discussion: Genesis 2-3 

1. how does Trible disprove that male superiority and female inferiority is the will of God? 

Misinterpretations of Genesis 2-3: 

· A male God creates man first (2:7) and woman last (2:22); first means superior and last means inferior or subordinate; men are superior to women in God’s scheme of things.  

· Women is created for the sake of man, a helpmate to cure his loneliness (2:18-23)  

· Woman is created from the rib of man, forever dependent on him (2:21-22) 

· Taken from man (2:23), woman has a derivative and not an autonomous existence.  

· Man names woman (2:23) and thus has power over her. 

· Woman tempted man; she is responsible for sin in the world (3:6); she is untrustworthy, gullible, and simpleminded.  

· Woman is cursed by pain in childbirth for her sin (3:16) 

· Man has the right, given to him by God, to rule over woman (3:16)