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0:00There are a lot of assumptions
0:02about [snorts] the differences and
0:04indeed similarities between men and
0:06women today.
0:08One of those assumptions is that
0:11biblical original sin is the same for
0:14men and women, but this isn't what the
0:17Bible tells us. This is often quite
0:19difficult for people to deal with even
0:22in Christian circles, which are, to be
0:24honest, increasingly influenced by
0:27feminist thought. But if we actually
0:30look at what the Bible says in Genesis
0:332, God warned
0:35Adam not to eat at the tree of knowledge
0:38of good and evil, and in turn, Eve
0:41obviously found out about that, too,
0:43whether God told her or Adam is
0:45irrelevant. She knew not to break this
0:47commandment, too.
0:49In Genesis 3,
0:52this describes how Adam and Eve
0:54disobeyed this commandment, and the
0:58consequences for doing this, the
1:00consequences of their actions, which do
1:03vary for Adam and Eve despite some
1:06similarities. So, in this video, we'll
1:09be looking at these differences of how
1:11original sin was broken for man and
1:14woman, and how this is also part of the
1:17consequences for men and women, this
1:19difference. The punishment varies for
1:22men and women, and there obviously are
1:25some similarities. Both Adam and Eve
1:28were expelled from the garden of Eden,
1:30for example.
1:32For me, this is really important because
1:35we see these
1:37patterns related to original sin in the
1:40world today. So, we'll be looking at how
1:43this affects the relationship between
1:45men and women even
1:48today.
1:49For me, it's a really good example of
1:51how prophetic the Bible is at warning us
1:54about the dangers of sin and indeed the
1:58consequences of sin as well. So before I
2:00continue here, if you do enjoy this
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2:09comments section. So if we look at this
2:12slide here, and I called it the male and
2:14female original sin spectrum.
2:17We've got the tree of knowledge of good
2:18and evil in the middle and on either
2:20side we've got original sin broken down
2:23for men and women, male and female.
2:27Uh we will go through one point at a
2:29time and discuss the differences here.
2:32The first point for
2:35for Adam and Eve, men and women, is
2:38temptation.
2:40Why was Eve tempted? Why was Adam
2:42tempted? For Eve, she was tempted by the
2:45serpent.
2:46This is important. It's really important
2:48that we understand that it was the
2:49serpent who tempted Eve.
2:52>> [clears throat]
2:52>> Uh Eve said she shouldn't eat of the
2:54tree of knowledge of good and evil or
2:55otherwise she would surely die. But then
2:58the serpent said to Eve,
3:00"You will not surely die. You will be as
3:03gods knowing good and evil."
3:05But she ate She was tempted and she ate
3:07of that tree.
3:09What happened then was Eve went to Adam
3:13and tempted him to eat of the tree of
3:16knowledge of good and evil as well. So
3:18it he wasn't tempted by the serpent like
3:21Eve, he was tempted by Eve herself.
3:25Now let's move on to the reasons for
3:28this. As I've already mentioned, um we
3:31as we move to number two here, I have
3:33mentioned that the serpent said to Eve
3:36that she would be as gods knowing good
3:39and evil if she ate of the tree of
3:40knowledge of good and evil. That was her
3:43motivation.
3:44Adam's motivation is somewhat different
3:47if we look at the scripture. He appeased
3:49his wife. He went along with what Eve
3:53asked him to do.
3:55So, this is a difference. We can see the
3:57differences already, and this will
3:59continue here, and hopefully
4:01we can see what we can gain from this,
4:02because this is really important even in
4:04the modern world.
4:06Let's look at number three.
4:08Who did Adam and Eve blame for
4:11committing this sin?
4:13When God questioned Adam and Eve for
4:16this sin, Eve blamed the serpent. She
4:20said that the serpent basically tricked
4:22her into eating of the tree of knowledge
4:24of
4:24of good and evil.
4:26However,
4:27Adam
4:29not only blamed God because he brought
4:32Eve to him. He was the one who gave him
4:35Eve as a companion.
4:37He also blamed Eve herself for tempting
4:39him.
4:40So, this is another key difference.
4:43Now, we'll look at the cases or the
4:45punishments given to Adam and Eve by
4:49God.
4:50Now, in this sense,
4:52Eve was cursed with the pain of
4:55conception. Anything to do with
4:56childbirth, including monthly cycles and
4:59so on, would be painful.
5:02So, that was one of the things that Eve
5:05has to deal with. That's her cross to
5:07bear for
5:08committing the first or original sin.
5:11She was also
5:14cursed to be ruled by her husband. Now,
5:17this is interesting because
5:20the Bible does say initially within
5:23Genesis that
5:25Adam was given Eve to be a helpmate and
5:28a companion. But, the language is a lot
5:31softer than what came within the curse
5:33that God put upon Eve. In other words,
5:38it's almost like Adam is also being
5:40punished for going along with Eve and
5:43Eve for tempting Adam as well by this
5:47new kind of language within this
5:50relationship. It's far more of a tougher
5:53relationship now. Adam has far more
5:55expectation
5:57put on him, and Eve has far more
5:59expectation on here to have this
6:02relationship where Eve follows and Adam
6:05leads.
6:07If we move on to Adam
6:09for the curse at number four here, it
6:12says that he is cursed to toil the
6:14ground and struggle against nature.
6:18So, whereas previously
6:21Adam and Eve
6:23both didn't really need to do much. It
6:24was a paradise. They could just spend
6:26their days relaxing and tending to the
6:30tending to the environment around them
6:32very little if if anything at all
6:35because it was a paradise. And they
6:37could eat at the trees that gave them
6:39all the nourishment they needed. They
6:40just
6:42were told not to eat at this one tree,
6:44and they disobeyed that commandment.
6:46Now, in the world we're living today
6:49man has to toil the ground. He has to
6:51struggle against nature to survive.
6:55The he has to
6:57force back the elements. He has to
6:58protect himself from the elements
7:01and toil the ground so he can grow grow
7:04crops, for example. This is a very
7:06different situation now. Obviously, the
7:09other part of this is that Adam and Eve
7:11were both expelled from the garden.
7:14So, that is the the thing they have in
7:16common. But the nature of the
7:18punishments here are somewhat different
7:21as we can see.
7:22And amazingly, this is this is
7:24controversial.
7:25However, this is what the Bible says.
7:28And it to me
7:29it is interesting looking at this
7:31relationship
7:32and then examining the relationship
7:35between men and women in the the world
7:37today.
7:38So, if we move on here to the
7:39consequences of original sin, we're
7:42going to go into more detail cuz this
7:44this slide here is going to break down
7:47that in
7:49another way to make it easier for us to
7:51understand how this basically plays out
7:54in the world today.
7:56So, for women in the world today, the
7:58consequences of original sin
8:00are
8:02a situation where women covet power over
8:05God, man, and reproduction.
8:08Their vulnerability
8:10makes them covet power over God, which
8:13ties back to the original sin itself, to
8:16be as gods,
8:17but also, because of the curse put on
8:20her by God,
8:23she now
8:25covets power over man because she is
8:27ruled by man in the world around us.
8:31Equally,
8:32women today are constantly battling
8:35against
8:36the
8:38the hardship of reproduction.
8:40This is why we it seems to be almost an
8:43obsession with women today to
8:46move away from a situation where
8:48reproduction tion binds them, but also
8:52dealing with the pain of that, the
8:54consequences of this.
8:56In the
8:57Garden of Eden, it wouldn't have been
9:00like this. Originally, it wasn't
9:02supposed to be like that. If we look at
9:04men now,
9:06like women, the consequences aren't
9:09entirely the same. They have their own
9:12particular consequences.
9:15In this sense, just like women have to
9:19fight against the age to covet power
9:21over God, man man, and reproduction due
9:24to what Eve did in the garden,
9:28men have to fight against the age to
9:32put women on a pedestal and idolize
9:35them. Remember,
9:37idolatry is a sin. So, if you put women
9:39on a pedestal and idolize them, that is
9:43sinful. It's It's a It's one of the 10
9:45Commandments that you shouldn't make an
9:48idol of anything or anyone, frankly.
9:50But,
9:51critically, this comes down to idolizing
9:54female approval.
9:56This is the reason that Adam went along
10:00with Eve in the garden. It's because he
10:03wanted to pander to her approval.
10:08I would like to think that if Adam
10:10hadn't done that,
10:12if he'd if he just basically stepped
10:15back and not listened to Eve,
10:18it's entirely possible
10:21that God may have forgiven Adam for not
10:25preventing Eve for for from committing
10:27that sin due to free will.
10:30Obviously, this is speculation. I I
10:32don't know that, but
10:34having thought about this, it does make
10:36me
10:38consider whether that may have been the
10:40case.
10:42However, we can't truly know that.
10:45But, on in that sense, though, we do
10:48need to be aware that female approval,
10:51pandering to women, I making an an idol
10:54of women can get men into trouble. This
10:57is something we need to consider very
10:58carefully as men.
11:01And the other part of this is the
11:03endless battle to control nature. That
11:06is another one of the consequences of
11:07original sin. I have spoken about that a
11:11little bit
11:12already, but I want us to think about
11:14this a little bit more carefully. If it
11:16wasn't for this,
11:18we wouldn't have the need to fight
11:20against other men for resources.
11:23That is a big issue for us now, because
11:26resources are finite and the environment
11:30or nature can be very hard to overcome.
11:35This forces us into a into scarcity,
11:38which means we then need to fight other
11:40men for control of nature for the best
11:43land, for example. This is why Cain
11:47mated his brother Abel, given that he
11:50was jealous at Abel for having better
11:53land than him. He felt like he had worse
11:56land than Abel and Abel was more blessed
11:58than him, so this made him angry and he
12:00became the first murderer. This That
12:03story alone
12:04tells us a great deal about the
12:06situation for men now. I know we like to
12:08say that or can a lot of people will
12:11say, at least, that men can be
12:13psychopathic, but I think most of the
12:15problems that men have in the world are
12:19related to endlessly battling for
12:21control of nature so they can live well,
12:25often decadently, which is itself
12:28quite sinful if you take it to uh
12:31certain extremes, for sure. But also the
12:35acquisition of those resources help us
12:37to acquire the approval of women. And
12:40remember, this can become something
12:43sinful. We can begin to make an idol of
12:47female approval. Any kind of idolatry is
12:49bad, but I do think we should consider
12:51very carefully that idolizing female
12:53approval is a big problem as well.
12:58The key to understanding all of this as
13:00well is on on a broader point of
13:02Christianity.
13:04Original sin is like a disease.
13:07People struggle with the concept of
13:09original sin, what what it is and why we
13:12have to pay for it. But if you think of
13:15it like a disease that has infected us,
13:17this is this is a very
13:19orthodox Christian way of looking at it.
13:22We're infected with this disease of sin.
13:26We need to be cured of that. So, getting
13:29closer to Christ, partaking in the life
13:31of the church, this is how we do that.
13:35The church is often described as a
13:36spiritual hospital by Orthodox
13:39Christians with the priest being the
13:42receptionist and obviously Christ being
13:44the physician or the doctor.
13:47And
13:48all of this
13:49>> [snorts]
13:49>> explained in this fashion as well as
13:51critically the main point of the video
13:53which is
13:55the difference of sin for men and women
13:58should help clarify
14:00what it is going on here. Remember,
14:04in the middle, we also have the final
14:06piece of the puzzle puzzle, which is
14:08that men and women
14:10are struggling are struggling
14:12and
14:14face trying to overcome death. So, as
14:17I've said on this slide here to
14:18conclude,
14:20we all have to deal with struggle and
14:22death thanks to the consequences of
14:24original sin. That is a universal
14:27consequence despite the differences for
14:30men and women.
14:32So,
14:33that is it for another video.
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