"You will desire your husband but he will be your master, (3:16 Genesis). The story Genesis discourages the notion of gender balance by portraying women as less than man.
            
             In this creation story, God creates the heavens and the earth, everything in between, and Adam (man) from dust. The Lord God allows his creation, Adam, to abide in the Garden of Eden and eat from whatever tree he pleases except from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. Latter on, the Lord God notices that man is not complete. He therefore creates Eve, a woman, from Adam's rib to complete man.
             From this part of the story, it is assert able that this story doesn't support gender balance from the fact that god creates man first in his image and latter creates woman from one of Adam's ribs. This is basically saying that man more important because he was created first, and woman is merely an afterthought, or an extra to the concept of creating man. Also it is important to note that woman was created from man and is therefore not seen as a separate identity. One who may believe that Geneses does support gender balance would argue the fact that when the Lord God created woman, man was incomplete. Therefore man and woman are equal to one another and need each other to be complete. But the fact of the matter is that the Lord God created man not woman first suggesting that man is more important or the one of more significance.
            
             Further on in the story, Adam and Eve resided in the garden until one day the serpent approached Eve and tempted her with the fruit of the forbidden tree. The serpent persuades Eve by telling her she will have the knowledge of the Lord God himself. So Eve eats the fruit and gives some to Adam to eat. After discovering what Adam and Eve have done, the Lord God punishes them. He punishes woman by creating labor in childbirth, and says she will desire her husband but he will be her master. The Lord God tells man, &quo...