Cheryl Schatz

Lin #7,

You said:

This was all planned…even the process. God wanted Adam to see that being alone was not good.  I cannot see where that part has anything to do with sin entering the world. However, I do see where Adam did not ‘guard’ the garden and sin resulted.

I agree with you.  If there was sin prior to Eve’s creation we would have to learn that from the inspired text.  There is no biblical precedent for turning “not good” into a sin issue.  At least not in anything else that I have read.  There would have to be at least a second witness to make this an established fact and I see no such witness, so I think your point does stand quite well.