ramonajeanthequeen

I love this discussion and am so eager to learn of something that resonates with my spirit. We do know that God spoke to Eve, yes, however, when the instructions for the Garden were given, she was not yet created.

In that view, this message about not eating from the forbidden tree could very well have been relayed to Eve by they one God clearly did tell -Adam. I am not convinced, no matter how much I want to be, that, “God said,” is the same thing as “God told me” or “God told us.”

It also stands to reason to me that her addition of the command came from Adam, who, perhaps when in telling her not to eat of it, he may have also stressed, “don’t even touch it!”
I don’t think it set up and authoritarian rule, as much as Adam, clearly knowing what God told him, felt the need to make it clear to Eve, who was naturally in his care, yet was clearly not yet present when those instructions were given.

Also:

Doesn’t it seem more plausible that Eve could be tempted more easily by something her husband said God said, rather than by something God told her directly? I now personally when I hear from the Lord, I do not forget what He said. But when I hear from my husband I naturally run it by several people also.

I also wonder if God allowed the Word to be written in this way so that even through much depth of study, conversation and reading, there would be no clear and defining answer so as not to place eternal blame on one sex or the other when clearly both were in error.

Eve paid her dues for sure….and her desire was for her husband but he would rule over her henceforth. I feel like that says something about the created order, but not that Eve was less. She just perhaps needed a little more protection than Adam understood, and that He had more responsibility for her that he realized.

(We still don’t know and won’t know until we get to Heaven what powerful influence Eve must have had on Adam, and what it was that made HIM choose to eat the fruit.)

Seems to me that maybe Men need more protection than they realize too.

Thank you for your page and for this discussion.