Where was ADAM when EVE was deceived?

He was there with her

Genesis 3:6
And when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree to be desired to make one wise, she took of the fruit thereof, and did eat, and gave also unto her husband with her; and he did eat.

 

I guess a better question was what was he thinking.

 

Question: After Adam and Eve sinned, how did they hear a *voice* walking? Something to think about!

Any comments?

Gen.3:8)
....they heard the voice of the LORD God *walking* in the garden in the cool of the day: and Adam and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the LORD God amongst the trees of the garden.

MEE

 

Well, MEE, obviously at that time God fellowshipped directly with man, as was His original intention.

I run the risk of being called a heretic (again), but one can read too much into what is an attempt to relate to fallen man those things for which we have no frame of reference. It isn't precisely neccesary that God the Father have walked as you and I understand walking, or even that He have any kind of corporeal body in His interactions with the first humans. It's possible, yes, but just as possible that this was simply the best way to relate to the reader the familiarity with which the created once communed with his Creator.

 

</font>[/QUOTE]John Wesley, then, disagrees with the text of Genesis, doesn't he?

 

Genesis 3:6 doesn't say that Adam was there the whole time. He may have walked up as she was eating the fruit. We really can't say for sure. In either case, he showed terrible judgment, to say the least.

 

What I find interesting is that Eve's eyes were not opened to the fact that she was naked until Adam also ate the fruit.

 

Exactly! But you'd think that if she ate of the fruit, then she'd know. But it took both Adam and Eve eating the fruit before it had the effect.

Perhaps it is a two become one thing. I wonder if this has any ramification when it comes to salvation.

 

Gen 3:1 Now the serpent was more subtle than any beast of the field which the LORD God had made. And he said unto the woman, Yea, hath God said, Ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden?
Gen 3:2 And the woman said unto the serpent, We may eat of the fruit of the trees of the garden:
Gen 3:3 But of the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of the garden, God hath said, Ye shall not eat of it, neither shall ye touch it, lest ye die.
Gen 3:4 And the serpent said unto the woman, Ye shall not surely die:
Gen 3:5 For God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil.
Gen 3:6 And when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree to be desired to make one wise, she took of the fruit thereof, and did eat, and gave also unto her husband with her; and he did eat.

I'm of the opinion that Adam was not with, that is close to or beside Eve, during the encounter with satan. I base this on the bolden parts of the above. Not stated, granted, but inferred, and so my opinion.

Also , the italized above (vs 6) leads me to believe, in conjunction with the previous explanation, that Adam either came on the scene shortly after Eve ate the apple(?) or perhaps she sought him out since the fruit proved appetizing.

Now all the above could be totally in error, and he was there all the time, but for some unfathomable reason just declined to intervene!?

That's because Adam was the head of that household, and the command to refrain from this particular tree was given to him, not Eve. (IMHO!)

We assume, rightly or wrongly, that he passed the instruction of God to Eve, but possibly was not very clear; hence the devil's approach to Eve?!

 

According to Jesus, if a man divorces a woman then he makes her into an adultress. It seems to me that the first marriage is when two become one.

 

By the way Diane, do you remember me? I used to go by Tuor in my early days.