Cheryl Schatz

Thanks Greg!  I had a seminary prof dialog with me on the Genesis account and I asked him who told him that Eve messed up God’s command by adding to God’s word?  He had never thought this one through before and he admitted to me that he believed it because he had been taught it.  When I went through my reasoning with him from the scriptures (not from tradition) he said that my point was well taken and well argued from the scriptures.  He said that I had really pushed him to think outside the box.  Up until that point he had not realized that his thinking about Eve was from tradition and not from the documented scriptural facts.  It has really made me wonder how much I am guilty of accepting tradition in areas that I may still be blinded to my own faults, instead of reading critically through the text.  I want to root out any false presupposition that I have so that I can understand what God has to say on the matter.  What God has to say should be sufficient for us to understand what God wants us to see.  Since God is the only one living who has given us his word about what happened in that creation period, I do not want to let any person influence me to doubt God’s word.  I want God’s word to be true even though every man could be flawed with their own false thoughts.