Cheryl Schatz

TL,
You had asked on the previous post:

If only the man were ejected, then
1. did God think that because she was tempted and deceived, thus not eating in deliberate sin she would not make that same mistake with the other tree even though she was now suffering the death effects of that mistake and prone even more to deception.

I do not think that Eve was prone to deception any longer. She had her eyes opened and she was not suffering from a sin nature of rebellion as Adam was. Her deception was in essence an “immunization” to any further deception and we have no indication from the Scripture that she continued a pattern of being deceived. I believe that if she had stayed in the garden, she would have been obedient to God. But she was “one flesh” with the man and her desire was to be with him.

2. did God not worry about it because He knew that she would not wish to remain alone since God said that aloneness was not good.

I believe that God knew He could trust this formerly deceived woman to be obedient. She could have stayed in the garden and the Messiah could have come through her directly as no man was needed for His birth. But God knows the future and He knew she would leave of her own (with or without Adam’s coercion).

I fully see the need for the man to leave because of his seemingly unrepentant disobedience. And I fully see that his knowing disobedience would be the cause of sin being carried to all humanity. Two humans suffering the consequences of death, would produce children from that position of death. Adam’s deliberate treachery would have consequences, which it did in Cain and in one of Cain’s sons or nephews (forget which without looking). Notice that is the males who follow the pattern….. at least at that point.

Exactly! Adam’s deliberate treachery had serious consequences in his entire line of descendants. It is only the promise of the Messiah through the woman that gave mankind hope.