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Adam Ate the Forbidden Fruit and Guess Who Showed Up?


 In Genesis 3:6 Adam ate the forbidden fruit, and this is what happened next:

 

The eyes of both Adam and Eve were opened.

They knew they were naked.

 

In my previous email I explained the wordplay the ancient author used to make an important point. A snake was more subtle, shrewd, clever, crafty, and cunning than two humans – they had been shamed and exposed! Instead of revealing the image of God through their actions, they acted like the snake. After being exposed Genesis 3:7 reveals what they did -- they sewed fig leaves together and made themselves coverings.

 

When they heard Yahweh walking in the garden -- Adam hid! Then Eve hid too. They hid in the trees of the garden.

 

● Yahweh: “Adam, where are you?”

 

● Adam: “I heard your voice and I was afraid because I was naked. Then I hid myself.”

 

● Yahweh: “Who told you that you were naked? Have you eaten from the tree of which I commanded you not to eat?”

 

● Adam: “The woman whom you gave me, gave me fruit from that tree, and I ate.”

 

What do you think about that conversation? Adam revealed some interesting things about himself. Notice that Adam said, “I hid myself.” The Hebrew text indicates that when Adam heard Yahweh, he literally left Eve standing there alone, and hid himself. She then had to find a place to hide. Did you notice how Adam tried to blame Yahweh for what he did with the words – “the woman you gave me?” In other words, if Yahweh had given him the woman, he wouldn’t have eaten the forbidden fruit!”

 

Now pay close attention to what Yahweh does. Instead of replying to Adam, He turned His attention to Eve.

 

● Yahweh: “Eve, what is this that you have done?”

 

● Eve: “The serpent deceived me, and I ate.”

 

What do you think Eve thought about what Adam said about Yahweh and her? But she said nothing about Adam or what he failed to do while the snake was talking to her. This is what she did.

 

She admitted that the snake deceived her and she ate the forbidden fruit.

 

After hearing Eve’s words, Yahweh turned His attention back to the snake and said, “Because you have done this, you are cursed more than all cattle, and more than every beast of the field.”

 

● The curse changed the physical body and diet of the snake – it will crawl on its belly and eat dust!

 

● Yahweh put hostility between the snake and the woman, and between their offspring. Her descendants will be stronger than those of the snake.

 

Be sure to note that Yahweh did not ask the snake why it did anything. It was a wild animal, not a human. Yahweh simply cursed it. The Yahweh turned His attention back to Eve. Below is the translation of what God said to her that you find in most Bibles.

 

“I will greatly multiply your sorrow and your conception; in pain you shall bring forth children; your desire shall be for your husband, and he shall rule over you.”

 

For at least 1,800 years those words have dominated Christian and Western views of women, childbirth, and their status in marriages, the Church, and societies. The Hebrew words, however, should have been translated in a very different way. That will be the subject of my next email.

 

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