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Subject: Adam and Eve Perfect or Flawed |
Bible Note: Dear Steve, My thoughts? Hope it maybe sharpened and blessed through this dicussion :-) I think you might have noticed that my preceding posts on the thread rejected the idea that Eve lied. But "misquoted" (as you say) could happen and this, when based on the scripture written, I agree it my assumption. For I see from the flow of the scripture Gen 2:15-22, it seems to me much of Eve's knowledge (including God's command to Adam) is second-handed (i.e. through Adam), except that she knows God in the first place in person (Gen 2:22). So, am I reasonable to think that Eve's knowledge is to a certain extent inferior to Adam's? She is made as a helper to Adam, who needs to teach her everything for his fulfilling the duty given in Gen 2:15. Since: scripture does not say God gave the command to Eve again directly, it is very likely that she got it second-handed. The way she expressed the command differently does not render that she lied as I have pointed out earlier in my post 208127. For the phrase "God has said" (Gen 3:3), Eve was responding to the serpent's tricky question "Indeed, has God said..." (Gen 3:1). Since she knows there is a sovereign God at the first place, she "could probably" know about the command second-handed and scripture does not record a direct command to her, I still don't feel it strong enough to consider God gave her the command directly but just Eve was responding to the serpent in a misleading way innocently. Did I make myself clear or am I just muddying the water? I have to admit that the above looks pretty much on speculation. However, scriptures seem to leave so much blank there that I am tempted to use my fallibel logic for the course. I am open to correction :-) Shalom Azure P.S. My use of 1 Tim 2:11-14 is in concern of Eve's less submissiveness as demonstrated in her expressing the command her own way (my post 208127) thus causing her fall into transgression. |