“Notwithstanding she shall be saved in childbearing...”
1 Cor. 3:15, “If any man’s work shall be burned, he shall suffer loss: but he himself shall be saved; yet so as by fire.”
Same Greek words and construction. I think women got the best of this, maybe ‘cause they were deceived and men just flat sinned. Then again, I never had a baby. I sat in the club house reading Sports Illustrated when the boys were born.
If suffering was supposed to be punishment from God for disobedience, then Eve certainly must have done much worse in God's eyes. Our (male) part is easy when it comes to babies...but then, funny, that's true of most animals, isn't it?
If it is true, as Dr. E says, that women are saved because of the pain of childbearing, than I am sure all "bible-believing" Protestant women turn down spinal block anesthesia when delivering babies...so they can remain faithful and obedient...and suffer in pain of "salvation."