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Originally Posted by Drake
In Jane Anderson's reasoning the lemon verses were influenced by Satan working through male biased translators for the purpose of subjugating women to prevent them from fulfilling their God designated role.
First, what I agree with... Satan wants subjugate women and prevent them from fulfilling their God designated role.
I disagree with the argument that the tools of Satan were the male bias of the translators. I don't believe that male bias in translators is relevant. When Jane's reasoning on Genesis 3:16 is applied to the similar verse of Genesis 4:7 her whole argument falls flat, crashes through the floor, and into the basement. Here the two verses are juxtaposed for clarity:
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Drake
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Genesis 3:13-16
13 And the Lord God said unto the woman, What is this that thou hast done? And the woman said, The serpent beguiled me, and I did eat.
14 And the Lord God said unto the serpent, Because thou hast done this, thou art cursed above all cattle, and above every beast of the field; upon thy belly shalt thou go, and dust shalt thou eat all the days of thy life:
15 And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel.
Satan was cursed by God because he deceived the woman. Got put enmity between the the serpent and the woman and her seed. Ultimately the serpent met his END because of the seed of woman...the serpent's head was bruised and will ultimately be cast into the lake of fire.
It should be obvious that the serpent works through any means possible to exact revenge on the woman.
"Satan working through male biased translators" would be a
master stroke. Satan using God's own word against him to recruit men, and in fact, women themselves, as his accomplices in his campaign to defeat woman and her seed...Jesus Christ. God's was merciful toward the woman, and later a virgin woman, who would ultimately bring forth his only begotten Son...not born of man. The serpent was cursed, and Adam received this punishment:
Gen. 3:23 Therefore the Lord God sent him forth from the garden of Eden, to till the ground from whence he was taken.
24 So he drove out the man; and he placed at the east of the garden of Eden Cherubims, and a flaming sword which turned every way, to keep the way of the tree of life.
Adam was held responsible for the fall.
Romans 5:14 Nevertheless death reigned from Adam to Moses, even over them that had not sinned after the similitude of Adam's transgression, who is the figure of him that was to come.
Satan's working to inspire men's animosity toward women on every level is rooted here. The serpent was cursed by God, and the woman was blessed with the ultimate blessing...her seed would ultimately defeat the one who deceived her. She was warned that her lot in life wasn't going to be easy. So the serpent deceived men, and women, to fight his war against women for him.
Because of this enmity, Satan declared war on women. It would be naive to think that Satan was not behind any mistakes in translations of the Bible that may exist. In fact, it is a
brilliant, though Satanic, strategy. Worst of all, it's working.
From
War on the Saints by Jesse Penn-Lewis
Henceforth it is also war by Satan upon the womanhood of the world, in malignant revenge for the
verdict of the garden. War by the trampling down of women in all lands where the deceiver reigns.
War upon women in Christian lands, by the continuance of his Eden method of misinterpreting the
Word of God; insinuating into men's minds throughout all succeeding ages, that God pronounced a
"curse" upon the woman, when in truth she was pardoned and blessed; and instigating men of the
fallen race to carry out the supposed curse, which was in truth a curse upon the deceiver, and not the
deceived one (Gen. 3: 14).
"I will put enmity between thee and the woman," said God, as well as between "thy seed and her
seed," and this vindictive enmity of the hierarchy of evil to woman, and to believers, has not lessened
in its intensity from that day.
It would be a mistake to underestimate the workings of Satan.
Nell