Cheryl Schatz

I am transferring a comment from Maurie Nord from the old location of this post. Here is Maurie’s comment below:
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great site and arguments are irrefutable, in my opinion.

Meditation upon the bare-bones Genesis record reveals that the temptation of Eve did not happen in a moment. That is, Eve just happens to wander by the tree, the serpent is there and tricks her in a minute.

In spite of all the good and precious gifts God had given her, Eve was tempted to believe that God was not trustworthy and that He was secretly holding out on her regarding the knowledge of good and evil. These thoughts were probably already in Eve’s mind and those very thoughts had led her to the vicinity of the tree on occasional solitary walks, for it is not likely that Adam would stand silently by and listen to her conversation with the serpent. I am persuaded that at the beginning of creation, all animals had the power of speech, and that is why Eve never expressed surprise when the serpent spoke to her. This beautiful serpent submitted to and was obviously possessed by Satan and he begins by questioning Eve about what God had said about the tree of Knowledge. Eve had not been present when God gave Adam the command to not eat of the fruit of this tree, so Adam likely taught Eve himself. Commentators sometimes accuse Eve of adding to God’s word when she states that not only were they not to eat of the fruit, they were not even to touch it lest they die. However, I do not think that Eve was adding to God’s word of her own accord, rather she was probably repeating what Adam had told her. In his warning to Eve about the tree, Adam probably added “and don’t even touch it” as an extra measure to scare her away from the tree entirely. How many solitary trips had Eve previously taken to view the tree and ponder it? And how often had Satan observed her growing interest in it until he managed to get possession of this serpent which finally opened itself to the entry of this evil being? Of course it is speculation, but I find it difficult to imagine Eve so quickly falling to something so seriously forbidden by God. I suspect she loved the beauty and wise words of the charming serpent. She enjoyed more than one conversation with him.

I also suspect that Eve had thought about it for a long time until at last she was “ripe” for Satan’s picking so that when he point blank denied the Word of God and called Him a liar who was holding out on her, she believed the lie and first, she touched the fruit. She did not die as Adam said, so next she ate some and she did not die. On this final walk to the tree, she probably spent so much time in contemplation, that Adam set out to find her. Missing her conversation with the serpent, and arriving just in time to witness her eat the forbidden fruit, he must have been devastated, for now he was faced with the prospect of losing Eve. When he saw that she did not die after eating it, he looked into the lustful, alluring eyes of a fallen woman. He knowingly rejected God and in reality, he loved her more than he loved God. This was the first case of idolatry, the worship of the goddess, mother of all evil perpetuated to this day. Indeed, worship of the goddess is the oldest form of idolatry from which springs all manner of perversions and witch craft. The apostle Paul explicitly teaches that Eve was deceived regarding the fruit, but Adam was not and he made a deliberate choice to join Eve in her consequences. Eve’s egg was protected as pure and passed as pure down to Mary and all women. It is by fertilization of the sperm that a sin nature is introduce. God provided a pure sperm, likely the same as that of the first Adam before he fell, therefore Jesus, the second Adam was pure from sin.