Why did God punish Eve twice but Adam only once?

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As we read from Genesis, after the Fall God punishes Eve by making childbirth very painful and Adam by making physical labour hard for him.
However, physical labour is hard for women too, so it seems to me that God punished Eve (and other women) twice as hard as men by giving them two punishment and giving men only one.
Any thoughts?
 
Because if Adam had punished Eve, there’d be no Cain or Abel?

Seriously, both had reasoning capability, but Eve was seduced by the serpent. However, the fall is attributed to Adam.
 
Just a thought, maybe two on Eve; one for succumbing to the devil, and one for leading Adam into sin; and one for Adam following Eve into sin.

I rather like the thoughts of Augustine who noted the punishment for the fall was the loss of biological immortality, which was equally levied on all of mankind, male and female, from that day forward,.

But, praise the Lord, that His plan of salvation would provide a means of ensuring salvation of our soul, which remained, even after the fall, immortal.
 
chasingcars said:
As we read from Genesis, after the Fall God punishes Eve by making childbirth very painful and Adam by making physical labour hard for him.
However, physical labour is hard for women too, so it seems to me that God punished Eve (and other women) twice as hard as men by giving them two punishment and giving men only one.
Any thoughts?
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The curses appear to be aimed at those things that are peculiar to their sex. So Eve’s curse speaks to her role in procreation. Adam’s curse speaks to the fact that the land will be cursed on account of him, resulting in their being an adversarial relationship between he and the land, and his vocation as provider for his family. Additionally, we see that there will be strife between husband and wife, as the wife tries to usurp the husband’s role. In fact, your assumption that Eve is fulfilling Adam’s role as the provider sort of demonstrates the point of how the roles of husband and wife will be reversed causing strife. And ultimately, that death is introduced to humanity through sin. If you are trying to chalk up who has the worse curse, I think the point is passing you by.
 
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chasingcars said:
As we read from Genesis, after the Fall God punishes Eve by making childbirth very painful and Adam by making physical labour hard for him.
However, physical labour is hard for women too, so it seems to me that God punished Eve (and other women) twice as hard as men by giving them two punishment and giving men only one.
Any thoughts?
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It comes across to me as false reductio ad absurdum logic
with regard to all that affects Man in what should be a non-gender-centric manner…

Focussing upon an “extreme” difference - of an assumed ‘one versus two’…
and concluding that IT IS THEREFORE ‘twice as hard’?

In any and all cases.

Comparing qualitiative events vis attempted and questionable quantitative comparisons… ?

NOTE: I’m not saying that you are absurd… 🙂
 
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