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To: mdmathis6

Yet the Bible tells us eve was received by satan. Adam was not and willfully sinned


13 posted on 05/15/2021 11:19:32 AM PDT by Mom MD ( )
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To: Mom MD

Eve did it because she became convinced she could be like the Gods if she went along with Satan’s “pitch and woo”. Genesis provides no clarity as to why Adam ate the fruit provided by Eve but it is clear that God held them both responsible for eating of the Tree willfully. Adam was forced to work the ground which would not provide it’s full strength and both persons would die. Eve would experience multiplied sorrows with labor and child rearing and would be much more bound to Adam’s authority with the patterns repeated in subsequent generations. God cursed the serpent of course which most scholars think was a Satan infested creature.

I know there a lots of sermons about the delineations of sin and responsibility for the deed but both ate the fruit knowingly and perhaps for different reasons but many such sermons about the Edenic catastrophe are speculative. I’m not saying that none of those sermons have any value but i will say the best ones use a expository cross referencing biblical approach to further explain what happened in the garden.


17 posted on 05/16/2021 2:37:36 AM PDT by mdmathis6
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