“That a snake was talking to her should have told Eve that there was something fishy going on. But maybe she had never seen a fish. But this could be evidence that Eve was a blonde.”
Lol.. maybe she concentrated too hard.
But seriously, I have read different versions of this issue and have gone back and forth on it, over the years. One version (my original wrong-thinking version) is that it wasn’t a fair test... that Adam and Eve were like innocent children that didn’t know any better. Yeah.. uh... no. They had superior (to ours) intellect and did know better. They just were swayed and thusly, deceived.
One could argue, perhaps, that if Satan was that good at deception and connivingly persuasion, why did God allow him into the garden. Because everything (the whole point of life) is a test. It always has been and it always will be.
He asked a couple of kindergarten kids about Adam and Eve. Their teachers were a couple of nuns who were in the audience.
Their version went something like this: "Adam and Eve were a couple of bare people who loved each other. They were supposed to clean the pool but they kept eating berries off the bush. So God sent them straight to hell, and then he turned them into Protestants."
Obviously that was not what the nuns had taught them, but they found it hilarious.
Some years ago Bill Cosby had a version of House Party which included occasional clips from Linkletter's show, but it was mostly Cosby hamming it up. Tried watching it but found it tiresome.
One could argue, perhaps, that if Satan was that good at deception and connivingly persuasion, why did God allow him into the garden. Because everything (the whole point of life) is a test. It always has been and it always will be.
I would call your comment profound thinking. Not the usual fair provided by those who mistakenly believe Adam and Eve to be somehow unworthy of respect due to their transgression. To think otherwise is to deny the atonement of Jesus Christ for our sins and transgressions.
Adam and Eve were placed in the Garden by God, with certain stipulations. They passed their test and what we have now is a continuation of God’s plan for his children, the test as you call it. Satan’s role was minor and consistent with his continuing role as potential slave owner and tormentor of man whose days are numbered.
I do like how God honored Eve as the “mother of all living”, and revealed it to Moses so it would be written in scripture.