Cheryl Schatz

Charis,
In comment #79 you said:

Perhaps Adam put his wife before God and decided that since she was going to die, he would join her in death?

Hmmm…that would be an odd way to put one’s wife before God especially since he said nothing while she took of the fruit and ate it even though he was not deceived and had the ability to warn her and plead with her not to die. If he then said to himself, “While she is going o die so I will die too and that way I will put my wife before God and lay down my life for her…” it wouldn’t also fit that after they are “found out” he blames his wife for his sin instead of continuing to lay down his life for her and take the fall for her. And it seems to be that God gives Adam no commendation for his way of loving her enough to lay down his life for her (after refusing to lift a finger to help her when she was in her deception).

But as you so aptly put it, anyone (including a wife) who has been given the charge to be a watchman and who understands the lie and the deception is required to speak up and say something so that her husband and her kids are not deceived.

Thanks for your comments, Charis!