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1. Is the reference to ‘the man’ (in the banishment narrative) to include Eve aswell, regardless of whether one sees Adam as the head or not.

a. The reference is to “the human” and the pronouns are singular throughout. Eve is not a “him” and is never refered to as “the human” throughout the account, but Adam always is.

b. Adam sinned out of blatant rebellion knowing what he was doing. Eve was deceived into sinning.

c. The person who was driven out is singular and was made from the ground which could only be Adam.

d. Adam continued in rebellion when approached by God and blamed God and the woman whereas the woman came out of her deception and did not continue in her state of deception. This makes only Adam a threat to the tree because he alone continued in his rebellion.

e. there is no evidence in the text that Eve was banished from the garden.

2. Was Eve (now in her sinful nature) able to listen to God’s command and therefore not eat from the tree of life, or did she need to be banished aswell (i.e was she a threat or not). What does the bible say about sin and about the heart? Are we able to obey God as sinful people, therefore was Eve even able to obey God as a sinful person?

a) She did not have the same sinful nature that Adam had out of rebellion sinning knowing what he was doing and she was not Adam’s offspring therefore she did not inheret any sinful nature from Adam – sinner or not, this is the fact. She would have to be deceived again into eating from the tree. But since she already came out of her deception there’s no reason to think that she would fall for the serpent’s trickery again, while Adam on the other hand stayed in his state of rebellion.

b) What the bible says about sin and the heart pertains to Adam’s offspring of which Eve is not.
c) The text only shows that adam was a threat to the tree and therefore God knew that she would have been able to obey by not eating from the tree of life.

3. What is the true meaning of Eve’s desire for her husband? Is that really the reason she was not in the garden by chapter 4?

It’s the only information we have given in the text to go off of, so it had to be the reason why she left. There is nothing else the text offers to draw conclusions from.

Thanks for the questions!