Don

One thing we need to be careful about is that Hebraic thinking is NOT the same as Greek thinking.  A Hebrew can truncate a statement and the truncated part remains implied, this is totally forbidden in Greek logic chains.  We see examples of this truncation in Jonah, where he gives no escape clause in his warning, yet they escape; and in Mark 8:12 where Jonah is not mentioned as an exception to the “no sign given” yet Mat 12:39, Mat 16:4, and Luk 11:29 DO mention the sign of Jonah.  Skeptics use such verses to claim the Bible contradicts itself and it DOES if only using Greek logic, but the problem is in the using of Greek logic, not the Bible as understood by a Hebrew thinker.

I agree there is no evidence that the woman in the garden was a liar or even childlike.  But anyone can be simply mistaken.  Being deceived means one is mistaken about at least one thing, but the sin did not occur until she ate.  And if she was mistaken about at least 1 thing, I do not see why it could not be more than 1 thing.  I am not saying it is, I am saying we do not know.