Cheryl Schatz

Paula,
Yup, Eve did follow Adam out of the garden so she did “turn” towards or “longed for” him as God predicted in Genesis 3:16.

Don,
I think one thing that we need to realize is that we are created imperfect.  Eve was created without sin and as perfect as a woman can be without a sin nature.  Without the mental deterioration that we all have as we grow older, she would not be forgetful or ignorant of simple facts.  She was an amazing perfect woman who was deceived by the master deceiver without anyone to come to bat for her to reveal the deception.  As a helper, she was a perfect fit for Adam with a perfect ability to meet his needs.  A perfect woman is not incapable as we are.  If we measure Eve by our standards, I think we will miss the entire picture.  We are imperfect yet God loves us, yes.  Eve was perfect and became imperfect only after sin entered the picture.  Before she ate the fruit, there was nothing bad that we could charge her with.  She understood God’s simple command and she spoke with faith to the serpent.  Her faith was destroyed by the destroyer, not because of any inherent weakness in her humanity.

I think this is where we miss the boat sometimes.  We look at the creation of the earth and of humanity and think that they were somehow exactly the same as us with our weaknesses.  That isn’t so.  We can hardly even imagine what it would be like to be sinless even for a day, yet they experienced it.