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Results from: Answers On or After: Thu 12/31/70 Author: Sojournerinastrangeland Ordered by Date |
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1 | Why did Adam eat the apple too? | Gen 3:6 | Sojournerinastrangeland | 159493 | ||
Because of his desire to be like God; He wanted the power he thought the knowledge of good and evil would give him. Some people like to imagine it was out of love for Eve - he didn't want her to leave the garden without him, but God had not set that punishment yet, plus as soon as Adam was confronted, he blamed Eve for the sin. Romans 5 teaches that it was through Adam that sin entered the world. As the head of the the family, when Eve showed him the apple, he should have instructed her not to eat it. Instead they ate it together and sin entered the world as a result. |
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2 | Is this a guess on your part? | Gen 3:6 | Sojournerinastrangeland | 159489 | ||
I am not a Hebrew expert, but it's not exactly what I would call a "guess." One of the main rules of hermeneutics is to ask what the straight forward reading of the text describes. So if the text says "both" were opened without a reference to individual timing of the event, a straight forward reading would imply they opened at the same time. | ||||||
3 | Hebrew expert needed - Gen 3:6-7 | Gen 3:6 | Sojournerinastrangeland | 159304 | ||
A close reading of the verses from Genesis 3 seems to indicate that their eyes were opened at the same time. First, it uses the term "also" indicating an action following closely on the heels of the first and it says her husband was with her whch indicates they were together. "She took some and ate it. She also gave some to her husband, who was with her, and he ate it." Verse 7 implies that their eyes were opened at the same time: "Then the eyes of both of them were opened." The verse says "both" were opened. There's nothing to indicate their eyes opened at separate times. The use of the word "then" seems to describe the timing of what happened next - after they both ate, both their eyes were opened. | ||||||
4 | Garden of Eden | Gen 2:10 | Sojournerinastrangeland | 159303 | ||
The Bible does not tell us where the garden was located. Also, after the fall, God put an angel to guard the way to the tree of life, presumably that included the garden as well. (Genesis 3:24) Regardless, it would have been destroyed by the flood described in Genesis 7. | ||||||