Cheryl Schatz

Mark,
You said:

I think the greater weight of evidence lies in the ‘traditonal’ understanding of this scripture. The writer is subtly showing us how it was the Eve became deceived.

Mark, I wish you no disrespect, but you have not given any “evidence”. You have just repeated speculation about some “sins” of Eve’s that are not listed in the Scriptures. Speculation is not evidence no matter how much we would like it to be.

pinklight:

Mark, “different” is not the same thing as a contradiction. What Eve said God said does not contradict what God said to Adam when Adam was alone. What God said to both of them in Gen 1 also does not contradict what God said to Adam when he was alone. So that all three commands are different doesn’t matter.

Yes, exactly. Mark has yet to prove that different is the same as contradiction. There are examples of “different” accounts in the gospels of the same event, but apologists always agree that a “different” viewpoint is not the same thing as a contradiction. If we go by what Mark has told us about “different” then we would have to say that the gospels contradict one another because the accounts do not match. I don’t think so.