Lin

I had never heard of this teaching that Adam was to “guard” the garden until Paula pointed it out on her blog. I checked the Hebrew and was amazed. I have never heard this taught.

Most of the translations make it sound like his only job was to farm it. :o) What was Adam to ‘guard’ or protect the Garden from? We are not told. I also often wonder if Adam named the serpent.

However, another thought is that we rarely hear about the responses of Adam and Eve, either from the hierarchalists teaching of this passage.

Don, you make a great point that Eve admitted she was deceived and could only do that when she wasn’t any longer. So, she admits it. She does not say, ‘Adam did not protect me’. Or, ‘he allowed that serpent in here’. she did not play the blame game.