Cheryl Schatz

Mark, Mark, Mark, what are we to do with you?

No, she misquoted God by introducing the words “and you must not touch it”.

My friend, no one, not a single soul in the Bible said that Eve misquoted God. That is not true. She quoted God accurately and God did not correct either a lie or a misquote. There is no evidence at all that this was a misquote. It is a faulty tradition in the church.

If you could just finish listening to the rest of the clips, I think you will have a larger context of the proof. Are you game? Oh my goodness, or can you only take a little bit of me at a time? 😉

I would think that if you can read what I text, you can listen too. Go ahead and finish listening.

I think also you missed my point. In 3:2 she tells the serpent what we see in Gen 1:29, but then introduces verse 3 with “but God did say”… Did God not say what was in verse 2?

Verse two is a paraphrase because Eve says “we”. But then she changes to the direct quote and says “you”. If she was quoting Adam she would say “we may not touch the fruit”, but the exact quote is ‘You shall not eat from it or touch it, or you will die.'”

God said “You”, Eve’s first paraphrase says “we”. The quote comes exactly at the spot where Eve said “God said”. Does this clear things up?

OF course he did, but that subtle “but God did say” which was actually NOT what God did say is something significant.

God did say that they may eat from everything tree in the garden that had fruit that bears seeds. Every tree. The only tree that she couldn’t eat from was the one which had fruit which didn’t bear seeds. The one without life in it. But they were not to test that fruit. They had to take God by faith that this one tree did not have fruit with seeds in it.

But none the less, the writer of Genesis is using it in the early chapters of Gen, and the ‘Lord’ is dropped first by the serpent, then by Eve. You need to better to reconcile this than just dismiss that Eve didn’t know the term.

The writer of Genesis knew God as Yahweh. But there is nothing wrong in calling God as “God”. Unless you can show where this wasn’t allowed. God did not blame Eve for calling him “God” so I think this one has fallen to the ground too. Let’s not make an issue of something that God fails to make an issue of.

Okay, on to the next comment.