Cheryl Schatz

Eve’s character is being maligned by hierarchists and yes they are using an argument from silence because scripture never attributes sin or stupidity to Eve’s actions.  We can only access the “why” of Eve’s arguments by allowing her own words to tell us the why.  Eve claimed that God said additional words that are not recorded in scripture other than her own testimony.  Yet this is how God’s words are rightfully recorded in scripture as a testimony that “God said”.

The issue is whether we can attach any fault to Eve by the text alone.  The fact is that we cannot find fault with Eve from the text.  Therefore any attributing to Eve of a sin by adding to God’s (when we know that he spoke more than once and he spoke directly to Eve herself), or a flaw in Eve’s argument that proved she “got it wrong” must be an argument from silence.  If we just believed it as it is written (and which is never contested in scripture) we can rightfully see more about God from Eve’s testimony.  If we distrust Eve without a reason from the text, then we miss out on what God has for us that is revealed through a woman.  God does reveal things through women too and not just through men.  God has chosen to reveal things through his word quoted by a woman.