Notice how "the serpent" in the Garden of Eden is "more subtil than any beast of the field which the LORD God had made [Genesis 3:1a]," meaning the LORD God had not made the serpent. This implies God did make the serpent. [Is "the serpent" Lucifer?] Notice also how the question posed to Eve by the serpent has nought to do with the LORD God's word: "Yea, hath God said, Ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden [Genesis 3:1c]?" What did God say [Genesis 1:29]?
According to the apostle Paul, 'God' says, "Adam was not deceived, but the woman being deceived was in the transgression [1 Timothy 2:14]." This indicates Paul's [and his God's] belief that not only did Eve transgress; she also 'tempted' Adam to do likewise. Hath God said?
Jesus of Nazareth said, "there is none good but one, that is, God [Matthew 19:17c - e, et. al ]." To eat of "the tree of knowledge of good [Genesis 2:9, et. al]" cannot, therefore, be a transgression unless the 'God' who imposes such 'judgements' wishes to not be known. Did Adam and Eve need remedial courses in the knowledge of evil? They were both created "not good [Genesis 2:18b]" (not simply because Adam was created alone); both were, after all, created butt- naked-- and left so-- presumably, 'in the image, after the likeness' of their butt- naked LORD God and his butt- naked angels.
Was it transgression in Eve to desire "knowledge of good?" Does God seek to not be known? Why does Jewry's "Father which is in heaven... [make] his sun to rise on the evil [Matthew 5:45a & b]?" because Moses 'covered' the LORD God's nakedness when Adam and Eve 'uncovered' their own? It's obvious Eve did not transgress against God. Is transgressing against the devil transgression? According to the apostle Paul and all the patriarchs of Judaism and Christianity, on the subject of Eve: it would seem it is.
"She was the mother of all living [Genesis 3:20]." Mother is always right. Better to die young: knowing good for a season; than to live forever knowing only evil.
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