THE CONSEQUENCES OF SIN

FAMILY LIFE BY PROF. R T MUGERWA

After the fall by our first parents sin entered this world. The God informed the three the consequences of the decisions that they made and everyone received their own share of the curse!

THE SERPENT: Genesis 3:14-15  So the LORD God said to the serpent, "Because you have done this, "Cursed are you above all the livestock and all the wild animals! You will crawl on your belly and you will eat dust all the days of your life.  ¹⁵ And I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your offspring and hers; he will crush your head, and you will strike his heel."

THE WOMAN: Genesis 3:16  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."

THE MAN: Genesis 3:17-19  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."

They all had new masters the serpent had to deal with a hatred from the humans, the woman was to be ruled by the man, and the man was to be a subject to ground!

From then it has become a constant battle in this world to fight these consequences of sin. The serpent is going as far as possible to escape the wrath from the humans, the man is in a daily struggle working hard to make sure that he conquers his curse and have a comfortable life where the ground doesn't pronounce to him that death to him, his struggles is a result of many initiatives that are aimed at making this world better and fight the curse. And he has succeeded in making it better and at a time of climate change man is in struggle to minimize the effects of the curse.

Now why is it a sin when women try to fight their curse in having their original state before in when man her husband hadn't been given authority over her? Why is her quest seen as a struggle with Gods law?

Aren't men erring in the struggle to make women remain in the state where sin put them? Why is it so difficult for men to accept women's quest to have their freedom back as a result for what sin brought?

I know traditions have played a big role here especially with tribe like Luo and Kalenjin which put a woman in the same level as children, when they come to the bible and find a verse that announces women to be subject to men they thank the sin and accelerate the curse by using the bible to stop any attempt by women to rise beyond their curse and become independent.

By men standing in the way of women from being ministers they are erring, as it is right to try to make the cursed ground fertile by applying FERTILIZER the women have a right to fight their curse state of being subject to men and be independent.