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Originally Posted by Thankful Jane
The Bible says that God sent, actually drove, Adam out of the garden. Now that’s a visual: Adam being driven out of the garden by God. He didn’t go out voluntarily.
I don’t see anywhere that it says He drove Eve out.
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Hi Jane,
Was not man (Adam, both male and female) sent out of the Garden because they had become fallen? It's hard to imagine that God would have only sent the man out of the garden and left Eve; to be fruitful and multiply with whom?
I think I remember reading that Adam simply means man. So when it says that God drove Adam from the Garden, I can't believe that gender distinctions are appropriate. He simply drove man out of the garden. Remember that before Adam was put to sleep, there was only one Adam which apparently was both male and female - the two parts having not yet been separated.
Now God was driving this man (with both his sides segregated) from the Garden, to be fruitful and multiply in sin, awaiting redemption. When Romans speaks of this "Adam," is it not this segregated Adam to which Paul refers. This segregated (I know that sounds strange, but I don't know how else to say it) went forth, and in this segregated Adam, we are all born in sin.
What say you?
Roger