Cheryl Schatz

Lin,
Here are the two Hebrew interlinear references

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This interlinear breaks down each phrase into it’s component parts so you can see that the “yet” and “and” are the same word when they are broken away the attached words. They are both the Hebrew word “w”.

Eve certainly did give up the closeness to God she and Adam had in the garden; how could it be otherwise?

It was God’s choice to walk with Adam and Eve in the garden. But in the sinful word outside the garden, He didn’t appear very much. Since God did still communicate with mankind, I don’t see how it can be a direct turning away from God from Eve’s vantage point since she believed that God was still with her as He promised to bring the Messiah through her seed.

I really hate to attribute “sin” to anything that is not clear that it is sin. Women have been told for centuries that using their gifts for men was sin. I just don’t want to attribute sin to Eve without a direct witness of the Scriptures or I would feel that I may be making a similar mistake as complementarians have with Christians. I am not trying to be difficult. I just see no clear “sin” and since God doesn’t list it, Paul doesn’t list her additional “sin” and no one including Eve lists it, I don’t feel qualified to see something in her heart that hasn’t been given to me from the text.

By the way the Logos system that breaks down the Hebrew phrases into their components has been extremely helpful to me. Not all the interlinears do that. That helps us to compare apples to apples and that is what the copied examples do to help us see that both words are the same.