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Here’s a ‘why’ question I have regarding Adam:

When the serpent asked the woman, ‘Did God really say, “(a)You must not eat from / (b)any tree in the garden’?”, why didn’t the man just say, no, God said, ‘You are free to eat from / (b)any tree in the garden; but /(a)you must not eat from…
Why didn’t the man just take the twist right out of the serpent’s words by quoting God, setting God’s words straight? The first thing the serpent did was obviously swapped God’s words around and turned them into a question.

God’s command of prohibition saying ‘you must not eat from’ was regarding the one tree not any tree in the garden as God commanded the man saying he was free to eat from.

For Adam to have untwisted what the serpent asked, would have been an easy thing for him to do…