In order to understand a biblical worldview in relation to people, we have to go back to Genesis 3. Everything goes back to Genesis. In Chapters 1 & 2 we found the special creation of humanity. Made in the image of God and specially made by the Lord Himself and given all sorts of privileges including a relationship with God Himself that was wonderful. It was a sweet and perfect fellowship with the Lord. All of that comes unglued in Genesis 3 when Adam and Eve decide to sin.
When we come to the New Testament, we find in the Scriptures that Adam is given the blame for the fall. Eve, as we see in the text, was the first to rebel and eat of the fruit that God had forbidden, and she gives it to her husband, and he partakes. When we come to Romans 5, we find that it is Adam who was given the responsibility for sin. He is the one who had brought about the sin and corruption on the human race because he chose at that point to rebel. It is very likely that Eve was deceived. She certainly was. She chose, but she was deceived. Adam doesn’t seem to be deceived. Adam chose, at that moment, to eat willingly of this fruit over the obedience to God and thus sinfulness entered the human race with all the ramifications that come with it.
Today we are looking again at the curse and judgment God had brought upon the human race because of this sin. We looked at the curse on Satan, but we are going to pick up now with what happens to men and women.
The judgment for humanity begins with the woman in Genesis 3:16, it says, ‘To the woman He said, “I will greatly multiply your pain in childbirth, In pain you will bring forth children; Yet your desire will be for your husband, And he will rule over you.’” We start with one of the consequences being the intensity of physical pain in childbirth. We also find that her desire will be for her husband. Most believe that is a statement regarding that there will exist, built within her now fallen human nature, a desire to rule over her husband. Yet, in the last line it says that “And he will rule over you.” In the heart and mind of the fallen nature of mankind, of males, they will desire to be a tyrant over their wives. So, we are already set up for the battles within marriage. The perfect marriage of Genesis 2 has now become this marriage where two people want to be the ruler. Not just leadership but ruling over one another. So, the battle is on, and therefore that is part of the consequence of the human nature. Two fallen sinners coming together in marriage. The Bible talks a lot about how to get around those things and fix those issues and live biblically and godly in marriage and have a happy marriage, but the battle lines are set by our sinfulness here.
