Question about Eve?

Question

Okay, I'm just kinda wondering this: If Jesus died for our sins, why do women still experience pain during childbirth? The pain of childbirth was one of the punishments given to Eve for having disobeyed god or whatever, but if Jesus died for all our sins and the bad stuff we had done, why do women still have the pain of childbirth?

childbirth is NOT a sin. The PAIN of childbirth was the punishment for the sin commited. (I don't believe any of this, by the way. I'm an atheist. I was just wondering everyone else's thoughts)

Answer 1

What a neat question! If you read the account carefully you will see that the pain was increased. Therefore, it was always going to be painful, but he made it worse. Sense no child had been born before the fall we cannot deduce whether God relented after Christ or not.

Genesis 3 (New International Version)

All men due not raise their family's by the sweat of their brow any more. I do, but it is not the same as it was in those days. Think of a lawyer or a salesman. No sweat.

16 To the woman he said,
"I will greatly increase your pains in childbearing;
with pain you will give birth to children.
Your desire will be for your husband,
and he will rule over you."

17 To Adam he said, "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.

18 It will produce thorns and thistles for you,
and you will eat the plants of the field.

19 By the sweat of your brow
you will eat your food
until you return to the ground,
since from it you were taken;
for dust you are
and to dust you will return."

Genesis 4:1
[ Cain and Abel ] Adam lay with his wife Eve, and she became pregnant and gave birth to Cain. She said, "With the help of the LORD I have brought forth a man."

Notice in 4:1 that Eve praises God for helping her in this time. So, in short, if Eve got over it you should too!

Post note : Ray you idiot you are giving us men a bad name! The vagina is the last stop on the ride out. Wait till you have a kidney stone and think about it's trip out your urethra! You might just clue in and keep vulgar statement to yourself.

Answer 2

Well, there is nothing inherently wrong with feeling pain. It oftentimes acts as a warning, preventing further injury. If our hand did not burn when we accidentally grabbed a hot skillet, we would continue to hold it and suffer more serious injury, yes?

As for childbirth, the pain was not so much a punishment that God gave Eve. To the contrary, the punishment for sin is death. And Adam and Eve died. God did tell Eve, after she had sinned, what the result would be as to childbearing, true. But had she remained obedient, God’s blessing would have continued upon her and childbearing would have been an unmixed joy, for, “the blessing of Jehovah—that is what makes rich, and he adds no pain with it.” (See Proverbs 10:22).

But now, as a general rule, the imperfect functioning of the body would bring pain. Accordingly, God said “I shall greatly increase the pain of your pregnancy . . .” It must be remembered that often the things that he permits are said to be done by him. God withdrew his protection from the sinful pair and, as a result, they suffered physically. So do we. It is true that Christ died for us and we can benefit from that ransom sacrifice. Yet we still die, don’t we? It might be illustrated this way: you are sick. The doctor prescribes medicine that will make you well. But you have to fill the prescription. Then you have to take the medicine – all of it. It is similar with those who are Christians. We haven’t really taken the medicine yet. We went to the doctor (God) and we filled the prescription – we have become Christians. But the medicine has not really been put in our system. The ransom sacrifice of Christ Jesus – who is our High Priest – has not been fully put into our system yet. That is still future.

Hannah J Paul

Answer 3

Jesus died indeed to redeem us from our sins, past, present and future. The pains of childbirth are a natural consequence of our anatomical morphology.
If we have to accept the Genesis version of Adam and Eve, then we shall have to conclude the God’s punishment for Adam’s disobedience was exclusively related to both Adam and Eve.
Childbirth is not to be considered a sin but the only way we have to procreate and have life continue in our Earth.
Curious98

Answer 4

Even when we are saved from sin, we still have the effects of sin to live through as a consequence of our sin. If I tell you not to touch a hot stove and you do it anyway and get burned very badly, does it stop hurting just because I forgave you for doing it anyway? Neither does the effects or consequence of sin, i.e. childbirth pain. One of the consequences of sin that will be felt till Jesus comes again.

Answer 5

Um...have you had children? Have you seen how big they are and how small an area they come out of??? How can that not be painful? That's not a curse...it's a part of having a physical body. Women are BLESSED to be the ones able to carry and bear the children...
Jesus paying for our sins has nothing to do with childbirth, otherwise the "pain of childbirth" would have to be a sin...and of course it's not.

Answer 6

A wonderful question. Since childbirth, death, and toil were the punishments for Original sin, if Jesus died to get rid of Original sin, those things should vanish, at least for Christians. Childbirth should be painless, gardens should spring forth without effort, and death should be nonexistent.

Answer 7

Jesus died so that we won't have to die the second death which is eternal death. All of us will have to die the first death unless we are living when Jesus comes. There are still consequences to sin even if we are forgiven...one of which is pain during childbirth. If you have a child and he does something wrong...you will forgive him but he may still get a consequence so that he will remember better the next time.

Answer 8

the better question would be if he died for our sins why do we still sin?Jesus only wanted to show man how to be among them and not be as them.His job was to help man get his strength back to take his place back in the creation.He suffered and walked the earth as a man in the flesh to show us how to keep the faith and teach Gods word knowing that he would be killed for these beliefs , surely man could embrace these teachings of God and receive a better life.Now if women just laid down and out popped a baby,I doubt the connection would be the same,there has to be more of a reason for that pain than Eve's disobedience.

Answer 9

Jesus "died for our sins" because the penalty for sin is death...but the gift of God is eternal life.
Quit worrying about the small stuff, come to Jesus, and live forever!

Answer 10

Jesus died to forgive sins, but sin in our life may still have consequences. If you murder someone and then you are forgiven by God, the dead person is still dead and you will still have to go to jail or suffer the death penalty.

We are all guilty of sin. We still have Earthly consequenses for our sin. The consequences that we will not have to suffer if we are forgiven is the eternal seperation from God (hell).