Paula

Just a hypothetical scenario:

Serpent: “I’ve got to bring Adam down, but how?

God: “It is not good for the man to be alone.”

Serpent: “Ha! God has made a blunder in creating someone to help Adam, as if that will stop me!”

Serpent: “Yo, Adam!”

Adam: “Yeah, what?”

Serpent: “So you’re supposed to inspect the fruit but there’s one you can’t even touch, right?”

Adam: “Yeah. Bummer.”

Serpent: “I’ll show you how to inspect it without touching it! Are you game?”

Adam: “Sure!”

Serpent: “Here’s the deal. You take Eve over to that Tree, and I’ll trick her into opening it to be inspected. Then she’ll get in trouble but you won’t, but you’ll still get to know what’s inside the fruit!”

Adam: “Sheer genius! Let’s do it.”