Victim of Eve Syndrome?

EVE SYNDROME DEFINED

Are you a victim of Eve Syndrome?

How many of you out there are suffering from what I have labeled as the Eve Syndrome?

Well, since it is a relatively newly discovered ailment; I better define it so you can diagnose whether or not you may be suffering from it. Let's first look at what does the word "Syndrome" means:

syn•drome (sndrm)n.

1. A group of symptoms that collectively indicate or characterize a disease, psychological disorder, or other abnormal condition.

2. a. A complex of symptoms indicating the existence of an undesirable condition or quality.

b. A distinctive or characteristic pattern of behavior: the syndrome of conspicuous consumption in wealthy suburbs.

The word syndrome is Greek = sundrom meaning concurrence of symptoms, from sundromos, running together: sun-, syn- + dromos, a running.]

Now we need the definition of EVE:

In the Judeo-Christian and Islamic traditions Adam and Eve are the parents of the human race. Genesis gives two versions of their creation. In the first, God creates "male and female in his own image" on the sixth day. In the second, Adam is placed in the Garden of Eden, and Eve is later created from his rib to ease his loneliness. For succumbing to temptation and eating the fruit of the forbidden tree of knowledge of good and evil, God banished them from Eden, and they and their descendants were forced to live lives of hardship. Cain and Abel were their children. Christian theologians developed the doctrine of original sin based on the story of their transgression; in contrast, the Quran teaches that Adam's sin was his alone and did not make all people sinners.

The Fausset's Bible defines Eve below:

("life".) from ADAM.) Man's "help meet," i.e. a helper suited to and matching him. Formed from "one of Adam's ribs," taken by God from Adam in a deep sleep; type of the church formed from the opened side of her Heavenly Bridegroom (from whence flowed blood and water) in the death sleep, so as by faith in His atoning blood, and by the cleansing water of His Holy Spirit, to be "bone of His bone, and flesh of His flesh" (Ephesians 5:25-32; 1 John 5:6). See Genesis 2:21-22, "the rib built (the usual Hebrew word for founding a family: Genesis 16:2; Genesis 30:3 margin) her up into a woman"; not as Speaker's Commentary, "the side He built up," etc. For God "took one of them," therefore "side" (tseelah), "sides," must be used for rib, ribs. So in the ancient version, "Woman was not made out of his head to top him, not out of his feet to be trampled upon by him, but out of his side to be equal with him, under his arm to be protected, and near his heart to be beloved.

He was first formed, then Eve (1 Timothy 2:13), of the man and for the man (1 Corinthians 11:7-9); teaching the subjection and reverence which wives owe their husbands. Yet Eve's being made after Adam, and out of him, makes her 'the glory of the man.' If man is the head, she is the crown; a crown to her husband, the crown of the visible creation" (Henry). Her finer susceptibilities and more delicate organization are implied by her being formed, not out of dust as Adam, but of flesh already formed. The oneness of flesh is the foundation of the inseparable marriage union of one man with one woman (Malachi 2:15; Matthew 19:5). She was made from Adam's rib, to mark her oneness with him. Their unity is at once corporeal and spiritual of the profoundest kind, of heart as well as of body.

"This is now (Hebrew this time, as contrasted with the creatures heretofore formed besides Adam) bone of my bones," he exclaims in joyful surprise; and, with the intuitive knowledge wherewith he had named the other creatures according to the? natures, he names her "woman" ('ishah) as being taken out of "man" ('ish). She was the complement of man, of one nature, and in free and willing dependence on him. Thus, marriage is the holy appointment of God, based on the relations by creation between man and woman. Celibacy is not a higher, holier state (Hebrews 13:4). Eve's greater weakness and susceptibility to temptation appears in Genesis 3 and 2 Corinthians 11:3.

Her first error was in harboring mentally for a moment the possibility insinuated by the serpent, of God not having her truest interests at heart ("hath God said, Ye shall not eat of every tree?"), and of the "other" professing friend being more concerned for her good than God. In her reply to Satan she attenuates God's gracious permission ("of every tree of the garden thou mayest FREELY eat"; "we may eat of every tree"), she exaggerates the one simple prohibition ("thou shalt not eat of it," and "thou shalt surely (she leaves out the "surely") die "; "ye shall not eat of it, neither shall ye touch it, lest ye die"), and omits the certainty of the penalty. This leads to her unbelief toward God, credulity towards Satan. Eve became viewed as easily deceived, and thus she easily deceives.

Eve was created and seen as last in being, but first in sin. Satan began with "the weaker vessel." She yielded to his deceits; Adam yielded to conjugal love. So, the woman is sentenced next after Satan, and Adam is sentenced last. In Romans 5:12 Adam is made the transgressor; but there Eve is included too. Adam represents the sinning race as its head. But as for Eve, she shall be saved (through) with childbearing," i.e. through suffering her part of the primal curse in childbearing. And as for man he shall be saved through having to bear his part, the sweat of his brow.

Yea, the very curse will be a condition favorable to her salvation, by her faithfully ("if they ... the women ... shall continue in faith and charity") performing her part, childbearing and home duties, her sphere, as man's is public teaching and public duties (1 Timothy 3:11-15). (See ABEL; CAIN; SETH.) Her name Chawah, "life", implies both her being mother of all living and her being mother of the promised "Seed of the woman" who should give LIFE to the human race now subjected to death. Adam as a believer fitly gives her this name directly after God's promise of life through "the Seed of the woman." Otherwise her name ought to have implied death, which she had caused, not life.

Bibliography Information

Fausset, Andrew Robert M.A., D.D., "Definition for 'Eve' Fausset's Bible Dictionary".

bible-history.com - Fausset's; 1878.

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EVE SYNDROME defined by: Dorothy Guyton

1. Not being seen as anything other than alive to help support another’s life and well- being (husband, child) not knowing to support your own life is high priority.

2. Putting yourself second to all others including strangers because you were created second assuming there was status associated with creation placement even though the one created first could not be happy on his own.

3. You find it strange to be your own glory while a child, teen, young woman, before marrying and becoming your husband's glory.

4. Accepting that you are a deceiver and easily deceived; prone to fall and stumble over and over again without support.

5. believing you are a contagion unto death.

6. Trying to perform every remedy or act in order to find forgiveness and acceptance.

7. Feeling the heat of shame when the word "Eve" is ever mentioned.

8. Continually proclaiming your weakness and susceptibility to the world

ON A MEDICAL CHART YOUR SYMPTOMS WOULD READ as FOLLOWS:

Anxiety, exhaustion, weakness, inability to walk on her own, host to several parasitic beings, anemia from the parasites, contagious, prone to hot flashes, and dual personality of saint and deceiver.

Find health and healing. Ask yourself "What does your internal self- image look like?"

God created you, He loves you and He forgave his wonderful fallen creation a long time ago. It is time to fall in love with you again, the prescription and treatment for EVE SYNDROME: forgiveness by self.