Mark

Cheryl,

I do believe that my view is consistent with the rest of scripture and im more than happy to begin looking at other texts aswell to help Lauren better understand my position.

I am still concerned from what you wrote in relation to your doctrine of adam and eves sin if im going to be honest. I’m failing to see how you hold to Eve being a sinner and yet say “At the time that she ate she fully believed that there was no command that brought death. She believed that God was just directing them away from the fruit that would make them equal with God. She no longer believed God meant the command because she was deceived. By being deceived, Eve now believed that what she was doing was a good thing and not a disobedient thing.”

There is a lot of Eve ‘believed’ this and that in what you are saying. Is this not equally reading into the text?

In choosing to believe the tempter over God, she rejected God-that is the essence of sin. She had 2 choices, what God told and what the serpent told her, in choosing one, she rejected the other. I cant help but feel you are watering this down. Maybe i am misunderstanding you, i dont know. Are you saying Eve accidently sinned?