[ponyespresso]

This is NOT what God said!! But from whom did Eve hear this Teaching? She did not hear it from God. She did not hear it from the Serpent. She heard it from Adam.

I'm sorry to intrude. I have been in luke mode for quite a while and am nervous to emerge for several reasons. But, quickly, I really do need to ask, where do you get that she heard this false teaching from Adam. Why couldn't she have came up with this idea herself?

pony

btw: I have been copying and pasting the entire "why do babies go to heaven thread" for further study (Mongo ain't that bright to digest it all in one viewing.) Good, good stuff, but I am loath to print it all out (500+ pages so far!) to really give my full attention to it. Someday...

[Jerry_M]

Let me just jump in here quickly, and see if I can suppose why OPie states that the additional command of not to touch came from Adam, and was not an invention of Eve.

Could it be that this "imperfect worship" on the part of Adam is required to have Adam as the first transgressor (a point made stronly and often by the Apostle Paul) rather than Eve. The first Adam sinned, the second Adam (Christ) overcame sin.

[Calvinist_Dark_Lord]

Welcome abord lad or lass, which ever the case may be!

I'm sorry to intrude. I have been in luke mode for quite a while and am nervous to emerge for several reasons. But, quickly, I really do need to ask, where do you get that she heard this false teaching from Adam. Why couldn't she have came up with this idea herself?

That in itself is another topic. Alternate causuality is an option that we have not looked at as of yet, but it seems IMHO, to be a valid option.

you have been wise to lurk, some of these people...i'd worry about...especially that OrthodoxPresbyterian (havin some fun here OP!) character!!! You never know what those guys are liable to invent!

Welcome aboard none the less!