Gen 3:1 NOW the serpent was more cunning than any beast of the field which the LORD God had made. And he said to the woman, "Has God indeed said, 'You shall not eat of every tree of the garden'?"
Satan draws on God's words in the form of a question.
Gen 3:2 And the woman said to the serpent, "We may eat 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 has said, 'You shall not eat it, nor shall you touch it, lest you die.'"
Eve answers imperfectly as God did not add they could not touch it. That seems to have been something of her own planning.
Gen 3:4 Then the serpent said to the woman, "You will not surely die.
Satan brings God's word into question conversationally. He lies. Adam (silent throughout) and Eve find themselves in a discussion of the validity of God's word.
Gen 3:5 "For God knows that in the day you eat of it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil."
Satan now has projected the very thing that he was about - the thing that got him kicked out of heaven...pride. Adam is silent in this text but present. He is already entertaining the idea that Gods word can be revisited for interpetation and clarification. Now he is presented with the possibility of being God. He is silent but present. Satans propsal is a gamble. Adam knows that God said he would die. But Satan suggests that he will not die AND he will be like God.
Adam allows for this new interpretation to be tested. If Eve eats the fruit and dies - he will surely not eat of the fruit. If Eve does not die then he can be like God and will eat of the fruit.
Gen 3:6 So when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree desirable to make one wise, she took of its fruit and ate. She also gave to her husband with her, and he ate.
Gen 3:7 Then the eyes of both of them were opened, and they knew that they were naked; and they sewed fig leaves together and made themselves coverings.
Because Adam is silent in the text no one generally wants to speculate what he might have been thinking. However, If you stay within the context of the narrative you can see that all these things are factual.
- Satan brings God's word into question conversationally. He lies.
- Adam is silent in this text but present
- he is presented with the possibility of being God
- Adam knows that God said he would die.
- Satan suggests that he will not die AND he will be like God
- If Eve eats and does not die - then Satan is correct in his statement "You will not surely die."
- If Eve does not die, in the context of the narrative, then it is logically good for Adam to eat the fruit as well
- Adam did eat
1 comment:
Pretty good observations...you must have sat under some good preachers at some point in your life...ha ha...yes, it all comes down to who were they going to trust - God or Satan - and they chose to believe the wrong one...we need to always trust God even when our eyes (or something else) tells us He is wrong. The cool thing is that after this event, God spends the whole rest of history pursuing man with the message - you can trust me - see hwo much I love you - see my love proven on the cross - you can trust me.
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