The fact that Paul attributes to Adam this sin is significant since he certainly knows from Genesis that the woman, Eve, sinned first (cf. 2 Cor. 11:3; 1 Tim. 2:14). Already we see that Adam is being given a status in salvation history that is not tied only to temporal priority.This biblical datum is the stuff of Piper's recent assertion (in his talk on J. C. Ryle) that Christianity has a masculine feel. Of course Piper's right. And here's one instance among many that provide that biblical framework. Or shall we suppose that Paul's assertion was culture-bound? (Undoubtedly, at least in part, Paul was simply following God's lead in the Genesis 3 narrative in singling out Adam as responsible for mankind's defection.) No academic sophistication, no womanly wave of a magic exegetical wand, can wave away the obvious. But feminists (including so-called evangelicals) don't care about these things. They're too busy trying to fit Bible verses (if they want to be called evangelicals) into a secularist agenda.
Incidentally, it's a sorry and sad thing that evangelicals only started to see all sorts of egalitarianism in Scripture after the secular sexual revolution and when the secular feminist agenda was well under way. Coincidence? No. I believe the Bible calls it "worldliness."
And more evangelical "leaders," not least those rubbing shoulders with such feminists in institutions where this nonsense is put up with, need to call for repentance and lead the reform. The Church is losing its gospel witness as God's word is being dishonored (Tit. 2:5), dishonored, that is, by "evangelical feminists" and those who put up with them.
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