Cheryl Schatz

Don,

My take is we are to see that the woman’s reply to God is redemptive, she could only say she was deceived if she was NO LONGER deceived.  So there is hope for her.

This is exactly what I repeatedly communicated to the support group for ex-JW’s that I led.  I would ask them how one can know if one has been deceived?  The fact is that one cannot know unless one is no longer deceived.  Eve’s admission that she had been deceived proves that her eyes had been opened to the deception.  Eve was no longer believing that she wasn’t going to die and she would be wise like God.  She knew she had been had.