God multiplies the pain of women in child bearing

This is a response to an article by Matt Slick on CARM that seeks to answer the question: "Why would God increase the pain of childbirth because of Eve’s disobedience to Him?"


https://carm.org/god-multiplies-the-pain-of-women-in-child-bearing

The answer lies in two things. First, we must understand that Eve was the means God commanded to fill the earth with people. 

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Second, Adam was her “head.”

What? So Slick is saying God made childbirth painful - and outright dangerous - for women because Eve was commanded to fill the world with people and because Adam was in charge of her!

In what way does that explain God's choice here? Both of those are readily achievable without childbirth being painful and dangerous. Indeed the first would be more readily accomplished if it was not!

I suppose we need to get into the details here.


God commanded to fill the earth with people

First, we must understand that Eve was the means God commanded to fill the earth with people. Her union with Adam was supposed to produce children for the perfect world that God had created. But, Eve rebelled against God. Since sin brings pain and suffering, it was a natural consequence that she have pain and suffering in the very thing for which she was brought forth because she had rebelled against God.

So this is the standard Christian line was all the ills of the world. Adam and eve rebelled, so they got punished for their sin, only it was not punishment, because that would imply God chose it, instead it was a natural consequence of that sin.

So come back to the question of why would God increase the pain of childbirth because of Eve’s disobedience to Him, Slicks answer is that God did not do; it was a natural consequence of sin.

What had this to do with God commanding Eve to fill the earth with people? Absolutely nothing. That was just part of the smoke and mirrors that is trying to cover up God's culpability here.


Adam was her “head.”

Slick means that Adam was the "head" of the family.

When Adam fell, he represented his descendants. They then inherited the sinful nature that Adam brought upon himself as well as the effects of sin upon both him and Eve. Hence, their descendants would suffer the effects of sin in their persons by being born of sinful parents. The pain of childbirth is simply the result of that sin.

Er, that looks to be the same think, to me. He is again just saying it is the natural consequence of that sin. Nothing to do with Adam being the "head"


Summary

So apparently there are two reasons why made childbirth painful and dangerous:

  • It was a natural consequence of sin, but obfuscated by Eve filling the world with people
  • It was a natural consequence of sin, but obfuscated by Adam being her "head"

Of course, if it is a natural consequence, then it is a natural consequence because that is what God chose. He created nature. He chose to create it knowing that sin would have that effect, and, being all-knowing, he knew they would sin.

So ultimately God chose for women to suffer - and potentially die - because that is what God chose.

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