Be A Bigger Man

After reading Lanyer's "Eve's Apology in Defense of Women," I realized that the author makes a really good point that a stronger man, a man created perfectly in the image of a perfect God, would have refused the forbidden fruit Eve had taken from the garden. This idea really struck me because it is something that even our biblical literature courses here at Whitworth neglect to explain. If Adam was created so perfectly and in the image of God, how is he so easily tricked? Furthermore, how can men be seen as "better" than women in just about every biblical context when men blame the "weaker" sex they should be protecting? By blaming women for the downfall of humanity in general, men prove that they are incapable of being God-like because they cannot forgive. Maybe the next time this issue is raised in a theological discussion some men will have the...guts to call out the church for using women as a scapegoat for the fall of man.