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Originally Posted by awareness
...I wonder if being female is a curse? I'm don't mean they are cursed for being female, I'm saying they're cursed because of men. ...
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You're close, Harold:
Gen. 3:14 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.
The serpent was cursed and that enraged him. So he retaliated against the woman.
Here's the way Jesse Penn-Lewis phrased it:
"Henceforth the story of the ages consists of the record of a
war between these two seeds; the Seed of the woman--Christ and His redeemed--and the seed of the devil (See John 8: 44; 1 John 3: 10), right on to the furthermost point of the final committal of Satan to the lake of fire.
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."
Nell