A proposal that underlies this work is that one must understand faith if one is to unders‌tand sin. That is so because Paul has said, “Whatever is not from faith is sin” (Rom 14:23 NASB). If faith is amening God, as has been argued, then whatever does not amen God—whatever is not on the same page as God—is sin. It would follow that the woman could not have been going adrift, zealously overstating God’s command, or overstating it out of a sense that she found his actual command too