Cheryl Schatz

Mark you said:

Nice try! Please deal with the exegetical points i raised. You points here are arguments from silence. First and foremost we ought to deal with what is revealed, not guess on what is not revealed.

Oh yah? Then why did you say:

If you look closely at the Hebrew in Genesis 3, there is nothing in the grammar to suggest that Eve’s motive’s were good and Adam’s bad.

You are the one who challenged us that there was nothing in the passage’s grammar to show that Eve’s motives were good while his was bad. All I did was point out that Adam blamed both God and his wife, both of whom he knew were not to blame. That is a sign of a bad motive. I also pointed out that while Eve could have blamed Adam and she had every right to blame him for his silence when he had the mandate to share his understanding of the deception with her, the fact that she did not blame him showed that her heart was not against him. If Eve had blamed Adam she would also have been exonerated as a truth teller since God blames both the serpent and Adam for their actions or inactions toward Eve. The fact that Scripture does not reveal what would have been a very important point about blame-shifting in the case of Eve is important. Adam had already set the precedent on throwing her under the bus and then blaming the one under the bus. If her actions were on the same level as his surely we would have seen at least a similar reaction of Eve’s. Also the fact that God calls Adam’s blame-shifting as hiding his sin and never identifies her actions as sin goes a long way in identifying the difference between the motives of the two.

If you think i am wrong in the grammar then show me.

I can do one better than that concerning motives because God already gave us the answer. Through God’s inspired word He blamed Adam for hiding his sin (Job 31:33) and for acting in a treacherous manner (Hosea 6:7) and God gives no such heart condition for Eve, rather she was acting upon the deception that blinded her mind to the truth (2 Cor 11:3, cf 2 Cor 4:4)

This is an odd conclusion you have drawn. Who said God is to blame? Both are punished for their sin.

Adam blamed God (the woman You gave to be with me). Both were in the process of dying as this is the result of eating the poisoned fruit from the tree of death, but Eve was not punished as Adam was. Only Adam and the serpent received God’s judgment about a curse. Therefore the judgment that came at the time that God met them was given only to Adam and the serpent and not the woman. If you believe that God cursed the woman, you will have to prove it from the grammar.