Cheryl Schatz

Don,
I agree with you!  That is exactly my point!  This is the only place that woman spoke so when God said that Adam listened to the woman, he should have done something about it.

The point that I am making is that we cannot add in the thought that Eve was mistaken when the text clearly gives her testimony as fact.  The facts are not disputed in any way so without a piece of evidence to dispute her claim that “God said”, we are obligated to believe a woman who had not yet sinned.  Those who say that she got her facts wrong are grasping at the wind.  We could also grasp at many other things that also have no evidence in the text.  My contention is that we need to stick with the facts and not consider that Eve was deceived by her own malfunctioning mind in the first place before she was deceived by the serpent.  Unless we have facts to base a belief that Eve was incompetent to know the details accurately, we give a foothold to the hierarchists who push us to distrust Eve.  It is distrusting Eve’s testimony that has caused us to disregard God’s equal treatment of both the man and the woman.

By the way, while I passionately fight for Eve’s accuracy, I still have great respect for everything you say!