Cheryl Schatz

This will be my last comment for tonight.

Nicole, you asked:

Some questions:
1) Is it possible that Eve sinned after leaving the garden and so her sin nature came a different way than Adam?

If this was so, then Eve’s children would also have inherited her sin nature. The problem with this is that there is no Scripture to say that she had a sin nature, where it came from, or why her descendants didn’t inherit it.

2) Since sin is sin, regardless of deception, could her so-called “punishments” have been instead corruptions? Like God saying “I am not punishing you but here are the natural consequences of your decision.” That is what my parents do when I make a bad decision based on false information, so just a thought.

Well, I do believe that the necessity to “greatly increase” her conception was a consequence that would have to naturally follow her being in the death process. But as far as a “natural consequence” that is actually a punishment, her punishment is what God had told her from the beginning. It was that she would die. The only real punishment that came was to the one who deceived her (he was cursed) and the one who failed to protect her (he had a curse placed on his behalf).

3) “All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing.” Enabling bad/abusive behavior is just as bad (in my opinion almost worse) as being abusive yourself. Could this “turning/desire” be the when women worshiped the acquiring of a husband? I know many women (from many backgrounds) whose sole goal is to lay claim to a man and they will justify anything he does, because they only see him as an extension of themselves, not as a human being.

As far as women who enable bad abusive behavior, I think that this is not a good thing. I cannot qualify Eve’s patience with Adam since I don’t know what she did or didn’t do about his bad behavior. There is just not enough evidence to make a judgment call. I just know that Eve did not inherit a sin nature from Adam and her sin was not an act of rebellion as his was.