Mark

Pinklight,

Let’s look again at Adam and Eve’s confessions (or lack of).

You said “Adam was saying that God and the woman were at fault for the reason why he ate”

I agree with you here, but where is it in the text that saids this. What Adam said is true is it not? See the problem? When you read Adam you read into it that he is blaming someone else, but when you read Eve you say the opposite. My point is though, neither of them said anything false. You are being inconsistent. What Adam said was true becasue God addresses him for ‘listening to his wife’. What Eve said was true becasue God addresses the serpent “because you have done this…”. So i find it odd that you assume something about Adam but not Eve. Deception does not exonorate her from being sinful.

“God never blames the woman as he blames the serpent and Adam by saying “Because you have”.

I agree again, but God does not deny what Adam saids, in fact the opposite is true. He questions the woman “What have you done”, and then again when punishing Adam saids “because you have listened to your wife”. Adam’s statement about the fall is true, likewise so is Eve’s. You will have to do better to construe that the sin nature excluded Eve.

“She was a sinner, but not a rebel.”

I would really like to know your definition of sin, and also please support your definition from the bible if sin is not in fact ‘rebellion’. Also did God give a prohibition from eating the fruit…yes or no? Did Eve disobey that prohibition by eating the fruit, yes or no? Is disobedience rebellion, yes or no?