J Wong

There is a third possibly. neither God spoke to each of them directly and differently, nor Eve lied intentionally. She was simply giving her honest understanding to the serpent out of fear of possible bad consequence by getting too close to the prohibition.
In the examination process, God spoke to the head of the creation first, that is Adam and he passed the buck to both God and Eve, by saying, ‘the woman you gave me to be with me, she gave me…’ If Adam would have responded, ‘Sorry God! My bad…’, the examination would have ended there. However, they passed the buck all the way down to the serpent (from Adam to Eve and from Eve to the serpent), who should have been to be under the dominion of Adam and Eve.
If you were the president of United State, and you want to find out why one of your citizens was murdered in another country, say, in Philippine, whom will you call? You call the president of Philippine, and then it works down the chain. That was exactly what happened in Genesis 3.