If your a christian do you believe in this?3:16 Unto the woman he said, I will greatly multiply thy sorrow?

Question

and thy conception; in sorrow thou shalt bring forth children; and thy desire shall be to thy husband, and he shall rule over thee.

okay so what about the women who feel no pain when they give birth? or women who don't even know their pregnant till after they deliver without pain hmmmmmm

Answer 1

Yes. God has not repealed this punishment yet, as evidenced by: 1) uncomfortable pregnancies; 2) extremely painful childbirth; and 3) reliance upon our husbands.

This will be repealed at some future point, presumable after the end of Jesus' Millenial Reign, when God removes all suffering from the earth forever.

Peace.

Answer 2

Genesis 3:16 Unto the woman he said, I will greatly multiply thy sorrow and thy conception; in sorrow thou shalt bring forth children; and thy desire shall be to thy husband, and he shall rule over thee.

This was one of the consequenses of Eve eating the forbidden fruit, and disobeying God. Yes I believe this to be God's will for all women as a part of the punnishment that is handed down from Eve unto the rest of the women of life.

If a "Christian" does not agree with the word of God as a whole, they cannot call them selves a Christian, but a reprobate.

1 John 2:5 But whoso keepeth his word, in him verily is the love of God perfected: hereby know we that we are in him.

Answer 3

First, there is the factor of pain. Undoubtedly this verse does refer to the pain and danger of childbirth which women alone can experience. No man knows what a woman goes through in the birth of a child, but every mother here understands. But the word refers to more than mere physical pain; it is basically the Hebrew word for sorrow. In Hebrew there is no word for pain but sorrow is the word universally used. It comes from a root which means "to toil," i.e., "heart-breaking toil." This is perhaps why there has come into our language a description of birth pains as "labor," toil of a heart-breaking variety. It is evident, in view of the way the whole context has been developed, that this means more than simply physical pain; it refers also to the heartbreak associated with having children. This is woman's primary experience as a result of the fall, the presence of heartbreak in rearing children. It means that a mother's sense of success or failure in life is related to her children. A threat to a child is pain to a mother's heart.

Perhaps every mother feels more sharply than the father does any sense of danger to or failure in her children. Mothers' hearts are bound to their children. We know this from experience, and it is in line with what this passage suggests. The mother becomes so involved in the life of her children that what they feel, she feels; if they fail, she feels the heartbreak of it particularly strongly.

- Ray C. Stedman
http://www.raystedman.org/genesis/0319.html

Answer 4

isn't the sorrow after the birth? The years bringing children up, feeling their hurts and pains, knowing you can't wrap them up in cotton wool forever, having to let them go into the world with its hatred and bitterness. Doesn't that refer to the 'maternal' sixth sense some claim mothers possess? That's how I interpret that reading

Answer 5

Well, obviously giving birth is a pretty painful thing; luckily doctors have found ways to greatly ease that pain:)

As far as my desires always being to my husband, yes they are, but you have to complete the picture, his desires are alays to me too, we are always serving each other.

Does he rule over me, well, we do let him be the "head of the house" which means he chooses who's turn it is to pray, and he conducts family meetings, but major decisions we always make together. I love that quote from "My Big Fat Greek Wedding:" where the mom says "The man is the head of the family, but the woman is the neck, and she can turn the head any way she wants too." (I wish I could type with her accent).

hope that helps

Answer 6

I would say that's merely common sense. Most animals giv birth easily. Only humans do so in agony. Whether this was a curse or a simple explanation of an unfathomable mystery is really irrelevant.

Answer 7

Many theologians believe that God may never have planned for mankind to reproduce the way we do ... through sexual intercourse, pregnancy, and birth ... and that Adam's sin changed everything.

Also, women who experience no pain during childbirth are extremely rare.

Answer 8

This verse is a curse placed on woman due to the disobedience of Gods command not to eat of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. It is one verse in many that describe the fall of man and the results of sin in a perfect world. God also said to adam, “Because you listened to your wife and ate from the tree about which I commanded you, ‘You must not eat of it,’ “Cursed is the ground because of you; through painful toil you will eat of it all the days of your life."

Answer 9

Yeah, I agree with it.

Women do bring forth children in sorrow.

The "He shall rule over thee" phrase is a phrase that is understood in many different ways. But, at it's most basic, is it not true that most men try to excercise domion/rule/authority over their wives on some level? God is not endorsing this, but saying it is going to be a consequence of the "pandora's box" Adam and Eve had opened.

Answer 10

Well, it's true isn't it. There is great suffering when giving birth. And the Bible is clear about the husband being the head of the household.