day no. 15,738: resign thy manhood

To whom the sovran Presence thus repli'd.
Was shee thy God, that her thou didst obey
Before his voice, or was shee made thy guide,
Superior, or but equal, that to her
Thou did'st resigne thy Manhood, and the Place
Wherein God set thee above her made of thee
-- John Milton, Paradise Lost, Book X

When Adam submitted to Eve, he was, in that moment, resigning his manhood. He handed his man card over to be punched by the preferences of his wife. By turning to her, he turned in his formal resignation from the office of manhood, effectively immediately with no two weeks notice.

1 Corinthians 11:3
I would have you know, that the head of every man is Christ; and the head of the woman is the man; and the head of Christ is God.

God made man first in order to be first among equals. He was to be the head. And while placed over the woman, he was still under God. God had said one thing and his wife had said another. To listen to the woman was to ignore the voice of God. In short, it was idolatry. It was to place the desires of his charge over the desires of his Master.

Adam was made to obey God, Eve was made to obey Adam. As such, Eve would be ruled by God through Adam. Eve was not to worship Adam. She was to worship God by submitting to Adam. Instead, she ran point on this project and Adam listened to her counsel instead of the command of his God. Before he was a husband, he was a son. He was a man made in the image of God and owed his first allegiance to his Maker, not his helpmate.

Proverbs 31:3

Do not give your strength to women,

your ways to those who destroy kings.

Men were made to delegate tasks, not authority. The authority to delegate cannot itself be delegated. God delegated and invested some of His authority in man. But man was not and is not free to lend it to anyone else. God has not given man permission to to pass along his responsibilities. He can delegate some of the duties associated with the responsibilities, but the weight of the things remains on him. He cannot remove it or shirk it onto anyone else's shoulders.

Adam's sin was bending his ear in the wrong direction.

Genesis 3:17-19

And unto Adam he said, Because thou hast hearkened unto the voice of thy wife, and hast eaten of the tree, of which I commanded thee, saying, Thou shalt not eat of it: cursed is the ground for thy sake; in sorrow shalt thou eat of it all the days of thy life; thorns also and thistles shall it bring forth to thee; and thou shalt eat the herb of the field; in the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground; for out of it wast thou taken: for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return.