Joseph Wong

After some more careful study to your arguments, they actually prove that you are wrong. You argued that the woman should have also been reprimanded for adding to God’s word, if she had not quoted it correctly. Therefore, she must have quoted it correctly. However, based on this argument, shouldn’t her have also been reprimanded for touching the fruit, since it is also one of the prohibitions from God?

You arguments apparently are correct. However, they were taken out of context. When the woman said, “God has said, You shall not eat of it, neither shall you touch it, lest you die.”, it is not as she was relating a message she directly receive from God similar to the prophets, who wrote THUS SAYS THE LORD and then God’s message. This a a completely different context. She only presented her answer in response to the question from the snake. It is like asking a child in Sunday school, ‘Did God really said something?’ If the child previously learned something different, he/she would respond in a similar fashion. It doesn’t mean that the child heard God speaking directly him/her as did the prophets.