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Originally Posted by Nell
I am certain Eve was not made when God gave the first warning to Adam. In my first post of this information, I gave 4 options for how Eve knew about God's warning after she was made. The first possibility was that God told her directly later. So we're good here.
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Yes, you did. And it is possible that I misread you. But if there are those options, then why is there something to catch that Lee missed? That is what you said, not what SC said. For me it hid the possibly neutral position and colored the reading of your post as standing on the first as the only real position. And your interim response seems to dismiss or question the possibilities and return to only what is actually written-down in two or three verses.
Yes, Lee latched onto what was not there and built a ministry around it. He was the master of making mountains out of molehills and then making real mountains go away. It is one thing to be able to pray that the mountain in front of you is thrown into the sea. It is quite another when the mountain is the plain reading of the text of scripture that stands in the way of your ministry of smoke and mirrors.
But when it comes to the accounts in Genesis 1 – 3, it seems that straight reading of the text as simply factual recording of events is unlikely and it is more likely a metaphorical representation of a much more complicated sequence of events. Did you ever wonder why we think that creation was "very good" yet needed to be subdued? Must not have been as perfect as we think that "very good" really meant.
The point is not that there is a particular answer, but that there is a lot that is not told. Just a little. Is it just don't eat it, or even don't touch it? Is it forgive our debts or forgive our trespasses? (Those are not synonymous.)