Cheryl Schatz

Mark,

There have been a lot of comments here that I have missed since I was gone. I will try to catch up from here and there, maybe not in order.

First of all, you keeping saying things like:

Perhaps God did speak to Eve about it at another time, but there is no biblical record of that, so im more comfortable going with what’s there.

Why are you saying that there is no Biblical record of God talking to Eve? Just because it isn’t a narrator saying, “And God said…” doesn’t mean that we don’t have a record of the event. Eve quotes God directly using the words that He spoke to her. She used the term “you” (plural) instead of “we” or “us” as if it was Adam who passed on the command. Since her record of the event is the Biblical record unless her testimony is impugned by proper evidence that she is telling a lie, then we must accept that Eve told the truth and her quote of God’s words to her and Adam are the Biblical record of the event.

It appears to me that you have already indicted Eve for sin that has not been proven, which is exactly what the “court case” was about from my speech. All I am asking you for is the biblical evidence for her sin. I will shortly deal with the things that you have said that have nothing to do with sin.

By the way you did ask who were the two anonymous people who I quoted regarding comments on my DVD series. The first one was a Southern Baptist pastor who wrote me after seeing the DVDs and he was very convicted about the way that he had treated women. He repented of his attitude and felt that I needed to know.

The second quote was also from a pastor. This pastor is in a denomination that does not let women lead Bible studies where men are students. For him to make a public change of his position would have caused him to be removed from his position as pastor in the denomination. I have kept both pastor’s names out of the public realm as I do not want to cause either one of them trouble. They will need to make a move on their own and in their own time.