Adam was defiled, like Solomon eventually was) by woman because he was the head of Eve, but ate to please Eve instead of taking authority over her.
I agree about Solomon, and although I have taken your exact stance regarding Adam and Eve in the past -- and I think it fairly astute, there is a subtle issue in your reply; and I'd like to set things as straight as I can for reference of my own thinking; (you may want to read the following post before this one, as this one turned out rather long for a subtle point and the other may be more comforting...)
Note: The 'woman' was not called Eve at the time of the sin. A name signifies a person's glory and also the namer's power over them. Just so, it's important to notice that Adam's first words about her were: (Genesis 2:23) "she will be called woman.
" eg: future tense, but generic name.
But, regarding Adam -- just being a woman doesn't make a person a man's wife fully. Adam is not the husband of every woman who walked the earth in his lifetime. The name alone, by itself, is insufficient to guarantee total rights over her as wife, though it does suggest he had power over her. So -- I am unsure that Eve was totally under Adam's power ; at least, I think she was not more under his power than animals were before she 'knew' Adam in a sexual intercourse fashion and can be seen fully in the role of wife.
It is only *AFTER* she ate of the fruit of knowledge of Good and Evil, and God curses the ground from which they came (and hence their children), it is only then, that Adam *renames* her Eve. see: Genesis 3:17-20. It is as if Adam realizes God isn't going to form another human being out of the dust, but rather that they shall all come from her.
Again -- the depictions of the tree of life are often interchanged with the image of a king in the same place as the tree in ancient cultures -- for the King takes on the role of bringing his people life. So -- In essence, Adam by naming his woman with the same name as the tree of life, eg: "Eve" -- that would be understood by ancient peoples as Adam giving her the title of 'queen'. ( Genesis 3:16 ) rather than Adam giving her the name of the tainted tree of knowledge of Good and Evil. (kalon & Porn).
It is not a coincidence, then, that Deborah, the woman Judge (a ruler like to a queen but not by blood descent) is said to have held court under a date palm. eg: A tree with a known shape similar to depictions of the tree of life in many ancient cultures. Judges 4:4-5. I say this because Deborah's judgments brought life to the Israelite people in settling disputes.
I have been born again of the Spirit, there is no gender in the spirit. Here we see that all of Jobs children were killed, but they are all called young men after death of their flesh?
I don't know why you mention Job's daughters and say "men"; what does the quote have to do with the logic of the Spirit?
Woman comes from man, in the general sense (generic), so words like mankind automatically include women in biblical writing. In the passage you just quoted, the women may simply have died in a different way than the sons -- but the concern is explicit for the son's because of inheritances and for the same reason, the daughters (which could be grandchildren, by the way) are ignored... or it may be that we're merely seeing a translation issue, where 'men' should be understood to mean 'your children' in general. I don't know why the author translated it this particular way -- but it's not a stable issue to build your faith on -- as other bibles are going to translate it differently.
Adam was created in God's image meaning attributes. God is all things Male and Female yet we know Him as Male. Do you ever see a female angel in the Bible?
No. I have never seen a female angel in or out of the bible -- so please explicitly exclude the misnomer AKA centerfolds.
But I don't see God as all things Female, not at all -- he is 'Father', and 'Son' and 'Spirit'.
These three names themselves tell us all there is to know.
Father is Male, and is origin or progenitor.
Son is Male, offspring of the Father.
Spirit is 'Life'. eg: That which is found in the blood.
God made HE Him... then He divide Adam to make, He them. The Holy Spirit of God is the female side of God, The Dove, yet still called He.
hmmm....
It's not really proper to use the gender endings in languages to determine the sex of 'Spirit'. For The word for spirit is sometimes female in Hebrew Scriptures, but explicitly neuter (non-sexed) in the Greek scriptures like the new testament. There is no Gender associated with it. However, when Jesus calls the spirit 'paraclete', and reveals it to be God -- that word is never found in the Hebrew -- but is only new testament Greek, eg: παράκλη-τ-ος. so: Whenever God is revealed as person, the gender ending is male.
There are, I believe, references in Job to the verb paraclete, and if one looks at the Hebrew for that -- I think it will be plural and therefore end in the masculine yod-mem, I think. (But you might want to check to be sure... I'm just going from memory.) But even then, it's not a noun/participle... so the gender is probably irrelevant.
There is only one potentially female ending regarding the Spirit, and that is the Greek ending of 'dove'. So when the Spirit is revealed in the 'boldily form of a dove' (Luke 3:22), you will find that a lexicon will generally list it as feminine. But that's a somewhat hollow apologetic, as the word doesn't really have a true / normally feminine ending -- but is instead a word that ends in 'r' (rho), and is therefore irregular and just grouped for convenience with feminine words although -- strictly speaking notice that the word for male/man (ane-r) is ἀνή-ρ is also a word ending in RHO) and so *could* be listed as 'female'. But that's laughable -- it's male.
Let me try and share a better logical footing:
What we know about the Spirit, is that it calls out beside one's self and gives advice / comfort; That's why it's called "Paraclete" in the New testament eg: by Jesus (
http://biblehub.com/interlinear/john/14-16.htm ) ; and secondly we know that spirit means "life" ; for spirit -- or aspiration -- or spriation -- means to inhale or exhale, the vital sign of being alive.
Now, note two things: the name of 'life' is exactly the name Adam gives to his wife Eve -- BECAUSE -- she is the mother of all the living -- and secondly, Eve's position as queen is to give advice to the king (Adam).
So -- I will admit, that although the Spirit is masculine -- that it takes on a somewhat feminine role as laid out by Adam.
But consider it carefully, Femininity is drawn out of masculinity; And the Spirit comes from both the father and [through] the Son -- This might help explain my understand: Consider the human body as an analogy to femininity being 'drawn' from masculinity or from God -- The human body is made up of Chromosomes, and the male Chromosomes is a combination of X and Y types. It is NEVER two Y types. But -- When God created woman out of man, he did NOT create a W chromosome -- rather, he took *only* the X chromosome from the man.
This is a scientific fact; A woman has two copies of X chromosomes -- for she is part of man ; not entirely different, and not more than ; and a man is both X and Y chromosome. A male, contains the substance (bodily) of a female.
SO: Just as the X and Y chromosomes in the man's body must work *together* as equal chromosomes with some dominant and some recessive traits on each to make the body of a single person -- but Male -- there is nothing wrong with saying that *in* God the feminine traits are to be found.
Again: husband and wife must also work together (as equals) to be healthy in a marriage. And in God, the source of the image of mankind -- can transcend male or female, but contain both in himself. We are meant for some kind of (non-sexual) union with his Spirit.
Sorry I know it's confusing when you first see the idea.... although it's quite biblical. It's the very reason Paul refused to allow women to teach in HIS churches.
