RE: Why was Adam exempt from the transgression when the transgression was disobedience?
September 11, 2014 at 9:25 am
(September 10, 2014 at 3:11 pm)Greatest I am Wrote: Why was Adam exempt from the transgression when the transgression was disobedience?And if Eve was deceived, why punish her at all?
I think it's curious that god, who apparently had direct contact with Adam and Eve for an untold amount of time, made such a poor impression on them that they did not hesitate to act contrary to his wishes. Eve doesn't question the serpent when it calls god a liar, she immediately sees the fruit of the tree in a whole new light. There is nothing that says that Adam hesitated when Eve brought him the fruit; he just went ahead and ate.
Disobeying god apparently didn't faze them. Putting aside the idea of how the fruit might have "opened their eyes" we still have the question of how a being as supposedly perfect and wonderful as god made so little impression on them that all it took to get them to flip him off was a talking snake.
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