Cheryl Schatz

Craig,
A couple of things here. First of all when I did my DVD, I had not researched the grammar on verse 14 as I didn’t see it as a problem or a solution and I took it as I had always been taught. It wasn’t until sometime after my DVD came out that I was challenged with the grammar from verse 14 and it first came from the comp camp. Then later I learned a point of grammar that I had not learned before – the anaphoric usage. The anaphoric hinges on a usage of the noun first of all without the definite article and then the reference is used with the definite article. One cannot have an anaphoric reference without using the definite article for one of the instances. In your reference in #163 you did not use “the girl”. This is essential to use the definite article to have an anaphoric reference back to the indefinite noun.

Lastly the translation from 1 Tim 2:14 where “the woman” became a sinner is not a good translation. Most Bibles take the form that the NET bible uses:

NET | 1 Ti 2:14 And Adam was not deceived, but the woman, because she was fully deceived, fell into transgression.

This does not mean that she had not sinned before she was deceived into transgression. But it is a serious sin that is a consequence from being deceived.