Mark

OK video 4…

I agree with you Cheryl regarding the Greek grammar. The JW’s are quite silly really to assume such a case as that. It seems quite evident they read alot of things very literally.

But concerning the second point in the video i disagree. We need to keep in mind that Moses is writing this not Adam or Eve. He is writing for the Hebrews insprired by the Spirit to show them the origins of the world and the fall. Be careful not to read things to literally. Who were your anonymous quotes from by the way Cheryl? I do think Eve added to God’s word, but i do not think it was a sin nor was she a liar, because scripture testifies to her being ‘decieved’ at the fall. What i see in this passage is this.
1. Moses, the writer of Genesis, when writing chapter 3 introduces some very subtle hints in the text. For example, the serpent refers to Yahweh as ‘God’ not ‘LORD God’. Why does the writer do this? Equally interesting is that Eve does the same thing? Is this a hint form the writer that Eve is beginning to listen to the serpent rather than the “LORD God’?
2. She also adds “and you must not touch it”. Another subtle hint that Eve is further leaning toward the serpent rather than God.
3. The serpent tells her she will not surely die, and so then she eats and then becomes sinful, despite being decieved by the serpent.

I think this is the writers subtle hint to show us what happened in the garden, how Eve followed the serpent rather than God. She did add to the words of God, but under the deceptive influence and conversation with the serpent.

Why would God give them the same command in chapter 1, but then give Adam and Eve seperate ones in chapters 2 and 3. In fact where does it even tell us that God commanded Eve anything about the tree of knowledge- it isn’t there?

So Cheryl im sorry, but i must disagree on this point, although i do agree on the earlier Greek grammar issue with ‘anthropos’ and the masculine gender. I would really like you to consider why YHWH is dropped by the serpent and Eve in this passage a bit more rather than just dismissing it.