Bein' a Berean
…outside the box but inside God's Word...
God created perfection. Everything had harmony, order, and a hierarchy of purpose. The ranks of Archangels, Cherubim, Seraphim, Watchers, and Angelic Multitudes, to name a few.
One Archangel, Hellel (Shining One), was overtaken by his own beauty and grew dissatisfied with his station as a mere Archangel. He rebelled, believing he was equal to God and was cast down from his position, becoming known as Satan.
Since he was no match for God, his goal became to destroy God's creation.
God had created a man and gave him authority as a caretaker of God’s creation. The man was lonely and needed companionship and purpose. When the garden and the animals failed to satisfy his needs, God created the woman for the man.
Again, God established harmony, order, and hierarchical purpose on earth: the man ruled the woman, the animals, and the garden, respectively.
Satan, out of hatred and revenge, approached and deceived the woman with the lie that eating the forbidden fruit would make her equal to God. Believing this, she ate and then ordered Adam to eat.
Don’t you realize that you become the slave of whatever you choose to obey? Romans 6:16 (NLT).
Because the woman, in disregard of God, listened to Satan, she would experience pain in childbirth and be affected by his nature, driving in her a desire to rule over and to disrespect her husband, in keeping with a new delusional belief that she was like a god.
Because the man, disregarding God, obeyed the woman, Adam lost his authority and his favoured relationship with the land. Food would come by hard work.
God removed Adam and Eve from the garden to prevent them from eating from the tree of life and remaining in their fallen condition.
It’s in the nature of Eastern cultures to generally suppress women’s roles, while Western/Greek cultures are heavily influenced by a drive toward equality, stemming from feminism and its occult roots.
Because of these cultural differences, the Apostle Paul would be confronted with more liberal feminism than Peter would be in his ministry to the Jews.
As a direct result of the dynamics between Satan and the woman at the fall, unregenerate women embody a measure of evil not found in the man.
This is evident in the degree of attention women devote to adornment, care, and pride in their faces, hair, and attire, compared with men.
The inequality of the effect of the fall is affirmed by the difference in severity of a just God’s judgments against the two of them.
Romans 7:7 (NET) “Certainly, I would not have known sin except through the law.”
Romans 3:20 (NASB) "...for through the Law comes the knowledge of sin."
God’s commands, even those given to Eve and Adam at the fall, expose our sin when we try to obey God. Only when we recognize and repent of our fallen nature can we ask the Holy Spirit to put it to death.
God created the woman to be her husband's helper and to be cherished by him, but never as his equal.
Satan offered the woman his version of equality under him if she'd simply ignore God’s command. She accepted his offer. Today, Satan continues to make the same offer, and women, ignoring God’s commands, are accepting it... to their eternal demise.
God informed Eve and women today of two things: 1) that they would endure pain in childbirth, a significant emotional experience through which their nature can be permanently changed; 2) that their new fallen nature desires to dominate their husbands. Only when wives resolve to obey God’s command to submit to and respect their husbands’ authority can they cooperate with the Holy Spirit in putting that nature to death on the cross. That old nature does not want to die.
Romans 7:19-20 (NASB) For the good that I want, I do not do, but I practice the very evil that I do not want. But if I am doing the very thing I do not want, I am no longer the one doing it, but sin which dwells in me.
Refusal to address that old nature warrants questions about your salvation and destination.
Galatians 5:19-21 (NET) Now the works of the flesh are obvious: …hostilities, strife, jealousy, outbursts of anger, selfish rivalries, dissensions, factions, envying, … and similar things. I am warning you, as I had warned you before: Those who practice such things will not inherit the kingdom of God!
Do you regularly practice any of these fallen nature traits without remorse? If you do, expect the words, "I don't know you."
God created the woman to serve as her husband's helper and to be cherished by him. Satan deceived her into dominating her husband and subsequently living an unfulfilled life in misery.
Who will you obey today?
© 2026 Steve Bydeley.
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