In reading book eight, I thought it was especially interesting that Eve is portrayed as less worthy. When Eve is created, she awakes differently than Adam does. Adam automatically looks towards God; Eve looks in vain at herself. Adam is worthy enough to actually see God, but Eve just gets to hear His voice. In their creation, you see right off that Adam is of higher knowledge. I can't help but question when reading this, why God would create Eve to be weaker spiritually. Knowing she is weaker, and beautiful, this would obviously be an easy temptation for Adam to struggle with. God is all- knowing, and of course He knows Eve will take the first bite, so why does He create her to be weaker? I would have thought God would have created Eve to be stronger spiritually as well, so that she could resist temptation better.
P.S. I commented on Madison Harry's post.
It is interesting. We saw that in some of the earlier reading as well, that Man is the servant of God and Woman, the servant of Man.
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