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When Did Eve Sin?: The Fall & Biblical Historiography is unavailable, but you can change that!

Did Eve sin before Adam? When responding to the serpent’s temptation to eat the forbidden fruit, Eve says that one “must not touch it” (Gen 3:2–3). In this, Eve appears to embellish upon God’s clear command that one must not eat from the tree (Gen 2:17). Did Eve add to God’s command, becoming the first legalist? Was this an innocent mistake? Or is the answer altogether different? Jeffrey J....

when she answers the serpent’s ques‌tion in Genesis 3:2–3? One might argue that, with Ross as with other interpreters considered up to this point, there is a fundamental but virtually unspoken problem when it comes to interpreting Genesis 3:2–3. The problem is: How does one unders‌tand sin? If “whatever is not of faith is sin”—that is, whatever does not completely amen the Lord and agree with what he is, says, and does—then it would be impossible that Adam had misinformed his wife and equally impossible
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