Cheryl

Michael,

You also said concerning Eve:

There is no teaching that touching the tree will lead to death.

Actually there is testimony that God told her not to touch the fruit from the tree. Eating the fruit caused death, but touching the fruit would cause her to desire the fruit thus causing her to sin. It is her testimony of what God said to her. If we do not accept her testimony, then we have the woman lying about God’s word in essence she sinned before she ate the fruit. This is illogical and not possible. I went through this reasoning piece by piece at a talk I gave in Pennsylvania in October. You can find it here http://mmoutreach.org/audio_jw.htm under my name and right now it is the first talk called “Jehovah’s Women on Trial”.

I would be interested to know what you think of my reasoning. Although it deals specifically with JW teaching, their teaching is pretty much identifical to CBMW and John MacArthur who teach that the word of God came to the man only. My talk refutes their teaching and shows how it is impossible for Eve not to have heard from God directly regarding the commandment.