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Greg, thanks for the brief background info. That is very interesting and helpful.

Lin, excellent question points and thanks for the links!

Pink, #390, you say that Eve’s sin was eating/breaking God’s command. My issue is not and never has been that her deception is her get-out-of-jail-free card in terms of trying to pin rebellion on her. I get that. My point has been and is the one Geng is also making, in part, and that is that whatever enabled Adam to sin at the fall, was also in Eve, and if one says it wasn’t, then Adam and Eve were NOT created equally in God’s image, and if one says they WERE created equally in God’s image, then Eve had the same capabilities to sin as did Adam, whether she used them identically, (same way, same time, etc.) or not.

And further, as Geng is also questioning, Adam already HAD this ability to sin at/leading up to the fall, obviously, because he did sin, yet Cheryl has indeed claimed that the sin nature had its inception at the Fall, as a result of the actions there. Finally, it seems abundantly clear that Adam (and Eve, IMO) was totally capable of making sinful choices without the additional help of possessing a sin nature.