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Originally Posted by Paul Vusik
You are correct that the ground was cursed, not Adam. The reason that I wanted to ask a question about it, was that’s the first time over my almost 40 years that I listen to sermons I heard that statement being made. The point about this whole discourse was just clarifying if Adam was present at the time when the serpent approached Eve, in Gen 3:1.
I don’t believe he was, if you read the whole chapter in context and other references to it in the Bible, some of which you mentioned.
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While I disagree with you, because I think it's pretty clear that Adam was with her given that the verse literally says "...to her husband who was with her..." rather than something like "...to her husband who had just returned from tending to a portion of the garden", I can see that we are not
forced to conclude Adam was there when the serpent was there.
However, in reading the verses, even if someone thinks Adam was not there when the serpent was there (which seems plainly obvious, but is not stated explicitly), it DOES seem like, at a minimum, Adam was there when Eve ate the fruit, would you agree there, or no?
I just went through and read numerous commentaries on this verse, Genesis 3:6. The amount of people who say things like, "there's no way Adam could have been there otherwise he obviously would have spoken up against the serpent's lies" and also say things like, "see how Eve wanted to bring Adam into her sin and she lead him into it? We will never know if Adam was wilfully sinning or not"....is a little sad. It's amazing that what are supposed to be impartial BIBLE commentaries read all the best, noble intent into Adam and all the worst, evil intent into Eve.
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