Charis

Cheryl said:
She needs to learn the truth (verse 11). The stopping of teaching is connected to deception (verse 14) and it has something to do with being second (verse 13). The big question is why was Adam not deceived? What happened after he was created and before Eve was created that immunized him to the deception of the serpent? That is the key not rulership or authority or the garden.

I looked over on the CARM bulletin board a little, and I see for them and for me that the whole “authority” thing muddies the waters.
Wish I could help out but I can’t stomach joining that discussion, sorry 🙁

I have one point which I learned recently. I’ll put it here:

Gen 2:15 And the LORD God took the man, and put him into the garden of Eden to dress it and to keep it.

Adam was not just a gardener!

08104 shamar {shaw-mar’}
AV – keep 283, observe 46, heed 35, keeper 28, preserve 21, beware 9,
mark 8, watchman 8, wait 7, watch 7, regard 5, save 2, misc 9; 468
1) to keep, guard, observe, give heed

“keep”/shamar means to guard!
Does that not imply that there was an enemy?
Adam was the watchman.