This last class reinforced many of the questions I had already begun to formulate. Throughout our time together we looked up passages speaking of women’s roles in the Bible and the ways that Biblical men treated women. Men were worth more than women. Women were often treated like slaves and they had very little voice about anything in their lives. When God spoke the law to His people many of the things that were said appeared to be very demeaning to women. My immediate question was why, if God created men and women to be equal, did the laws He gave to instruct the people speak down to women? This went along with my other question about why God would command the Israelites to go and kill an entire people group taking all of their possessions. In both instances God commanded something that seems unjust. I asked Sarah what she thought and she said that it is possible that the people who wrote the Bible could have been writing it out of their own lenses and understanding. However, I did not feel contented. I would like to believe that God had the power to communicate through the people the exact message He wanted in the exact way he wanted. My understanding is that after the fall, man had to rule over himself. In order for this to work God established a hierarchy among men and women. When he spoke to them after the fall he was speaking to their situation; to the hierarchy he created because of the fall.