Victorious

Hello gengwall:

“I read it a little different in the garden: Adam’s mandate to protect Eve was not one of authority but of responsibility, at least in relationship to Eve. The authority would have been of Adam over the serpent, not Adam over Eve.”

Thank you for your response, but I’m not seeing any mandate from God to protect Eve. Since he was commanded to “guard” (keep) the garden, the reasonable assumption is that there was an entity that required guarding against. That could have only been satan imho and Adam failed in guarding the garden.

hmmm…. in typing this, I see how Adam was, in fact, mandated to protect Eve indirectly.

Ignore this post…. lol!