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I don’t know if I get much of a chance to comment if at all for some days, but I just have to say that even though the serpent is asking the woman what God said regarding the both of them because he uses the plural “you”, the serpent is speaking to the command that was given to Adam which I can see by the precise word choice and the flip flop that he does to the command that was given to Adam.

The serpent places the words of God’s prohibiton “you must not eat” onto what God did give Adam for food “any tree in the garden”. If one compares the exact words God spoke to Adam and the exact words the serpent used when he asked Eve his question, one can see what the serpent is doing. Then add that to the fact that Adam was with her – now we have a situation where Adam knows what the serpent is referencing, but Eve does not, and that Adam did not speak up is part of the reason why Eve was deceived. Talk about a tangeled mess.

Put yourself in Eve’s shoes. God commanded you and your husband (or wife) at some point in time not to do something. But God commanded your husband (or wife) not to do something but of which you have no idea about. Then when the tempter asks something in relation to what God commanded your husband (wife) of which you know nothing about, and your husband (wife) is there with you but says nothing or deosn’t speak up, it would support or cause for an idea that going against the command is safe. Make sense?

For sure, there is aboslutely NO WAY that if Adam was with Eve, that he could have been deceived by the serpent’s craftiness since the serpent’s craftiness is revealed in his question when compared to the exact words God commanded the man. Adam knew the exact words of God that he was commanded and the serpent was twisting them which Adam could no doubt see.

So Eve gives a defense for God after the serpent asks her his question, Adam doesn’t speak up fully aware of what’s going on, Eve doesn’t think twice since her husband just goes along with it in the sense of not saying anything and bame she next looks at the fruit through deceived eyes. (But God did speak to her and Adam together according to her testimony and she also lacked knowledge about creation and the Creator that Adam did not lack therefore she was deceived into believing that the both of them (just like the serpent said) could become like God plus Eve was created after Adam so Adam was able to experience God acting as Creator yet again (his first experience was with the animals) when woman was made from him – so Adam knew the difference between Creator and created since he was created first.

Hope I expalined it well enough, but that’s the short of it!