pinklight

Mark,

Gen 1 is not meant to be squeezed into the picture the way you and Cheryl try. It is a differant literary genre designed for a seperate purpose- an overview. Therefore your view leads to the logical conclusion that God gave some command not recorded, but which is vital in understanding Gen 3- just seems abit obscure to take that approach, when we have the prohibition recorded in Gen 2.

If you are correct than you are telling me that the accounts tell of two different times where God made two sets of a male and female. Is this what you believe? It is so simple, to me. It’s all one big story broken down into 2 accounts. So what? If it’s the same story then everyhting integrates together beautifully without contradiction.

Now some of your specific questions…
“Were they BOTH not able to eat from trees of the garden? You tell. Was this incorrect? Was she not given all trees on the earth?”

Yes they were both prohibited from eating the tree of knowledge of good and evil. The plural in Gen 3 of ‘you’ indicates that. Plus they both sinned by eating the fruit, therefore both were not allowed to eat it.

So then, yes, both could eat from the trees in the garden (this is what Eve told the serpent) in the very first part of her response to the serpent’s question, right, Mark?

NO she was not given every tree on the earth. They were both given trees and plants with ’seeds’ to eat. But i am sure that is what you meant anyway.

Yes, I meant – that they both were given every tree and plant with fruit that had seed, on the face of the entire earth, that is what I meant. (Therefore the tree of konwledge could not of had seed in it’s fruit.) Do you agree with that?
Thank you Mark for answering some questions! 🙂