Does Mrs. White say that Eve was Adams equal before the fall and that only after the fall was Adam to be her ruler?
Ellen White says both that Eve was Adam’s equal before sin entered and that woman is man’s equal today. But in her writings this equality doesn’t give man and woman identical roles and neither does it deny the Biblical concept that in some respects woman is to be in subjection to man. Testimonies for the Church, vol. 3, p. 484, says that “when God created Eve, He designed that she should possess neither inferiority nor superiority to the man, but that in all things she should be his equal. . . . But after Eve’s sin, as she was first in the transgression, the Lord told her that Adam should rule over her. She was to be in subjection to her husband, and this was a part of the curse.” This subjection is evidently still a part of God’s plan. Ellen White also said, “We women must remember that God has placed us subject to the husband. . . . We must yield to the head” (Letter 5, 1861). “The husband is the head of the family, as Christ is the head of the church; and any course which the wife m
