pinklight

Hi again Mark,

what made her see the fruit was good? The conversation led her there. Or had she never physically looked at the tree before in your view? You said her “perception was now in a state of deception”, but how did she get there if not through the conversation? It might help to look at what the biblical commentators say on this one?

What, you ask made her see the fruit was good? This which is what the serpent said after she got correct what her and Adam could eat, framing her question according to what the serpent was asking, and also after she told God’s command:

4 “You will not surely die,” the serpent said to the woman. 5 “For God knows that when you eat of it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.”

Those are the words that she ended up believing which is why she next saw the fruit as good. It doesn’t matter whether or not she even looked at the tree once, a hundred times, or never untell the serpent said that she and her husband would not surely die… And the reason why it doesn’t matter is because what does matter is that WHEN she saw it good for food, ONLY THEN did she eat.

6 When the woman saw that the fruit of the tree was good for food and pleasing to the eye, and also desirable for gaining wisdom, she took some and ate it.

Her perception was now in a state of deception, and how she got where she did was through the serpent lying about her and her husband not dying if they ate and becoming like God. She certainly didn’t get to a state of deception by telling the serpent what they could eat and telling God’s command.