Genesis 3 Punishing Eve

After he's finished with the serpent God punishes Eve. He gives her two punishments. First he commands that she will have pains in childbirth. I guess he forgot to mention the invention of the epidermal. I've talked to a lot of woman who have given birth and sometimes it's painful, sometime you get a caesarian and sometimes it no big sweat. So this punishment was really a pseudo punishment.



The second punishment is much more fun. God says that "You' desire will be for your husband and he will rule over you."3:16. Ok, so I have to desire my husband. There wasn't any other man in the garden. Who else could Eve possibly desire? And isn't that why we woman get married in the first place? To desire and rule over generic man?



The significant thing here is that for the first time God calls Adam a husband. Adam finally goes from generic man to husband. He still doesn't have a real name and you think a guy who named every living creature would be quite apt at naming would find a name for himself, but no, now Adam's just a husband.



Does that mean he wasn't a husband before? So Eve was Eve and a wife before eating the fruit and Adam just became a husband after he partook. Finally as punishment we have a husband and wife. Is that not a punishment for both Adam and Eve. How many of you married folks have sometimes thought that your marriage was the greatest self-inflicted punishment of all? So marriage therefor is one of God's punishments. Which by the way, makes a strong case for homosexulaity.



Then God adds injury to insult and says. "he (Eve's new husband Adam), will rule over you" 3: 16. Well, in all fairness to God there is no way he actually believed that the woman who had the balls to eat the fruit in the first place was going to let generic Adam rule over her. It wasn't in her nature when God created her and it would not be in her nature after she left the garden. I think God knew full one this was a blanketed threat.

Thoughts?