Examining the crime scene:

Ok now itys time to gather all the evidence:

Key pieces of Evidence are:

The creation of Adam.

The creation of Eve.

The command not to eat.

The Devil tempting Eve.

Adam disobeying God.

What we have to do is make an accurate, biblical timeline of events:

What comes first, second, third and so on:

1: God created Adam (Male)

What is number 2? e might think that number 2 is God creating Eve, but that not what the bible says happened next and its a very important order:

Eve is created in Gen2:21 but before that:

Genesis 2:16 CSB

16 And the Lord God commanded the man, “You are free to eat from any tree of the garden,

So:

2: God created the command

3: God created Eve (female)

4: Satan comes to Eve and decieves her.

5: Eve gives of the fruit to Adam and he eats.

This sin enters the world.

Now somewhere in these 5 key events lies the reason to God saying wives must submit and woman cannot teach or usurp authority.

I would like to draw your attention to 3 key points in what we have seen:

Point 1:

From 1-3 we see that the command not to eat of the tree of knowledge was givn to Adam. Eve did not get this command from God as she had not been created yet.

However, we see in point 4 and verses Gen 3:2 that Eve wa well aware of this command.

We can safly therefore assume that it was Adam who recieved the command and rightfully passed it into Eve.

Eve’s essencially recieved this command second hand.

Even though it was a command from God, it came to her from Adam.

This begs the question:

When Eve doubted the command because of Satan’s deception, was she doubting God or Adam?

Well since she did not exist when God gave the command, the command she is refering to was based on Adam’s word, not God’s.

Point 2:

It is no coincidence that Satan approached Eve and not Adam.

This was not 50/50 change.

Satan waits till the perfect oppertunity.

Luke 4:13 RSV

13 And when the devil had ended every temptation, he departed from him until an opportune time.

So Satan knew that Eve on her own was a better oppertunity that Adam on his own or Adam and Eve together.

Why was this?

Why did Satan blieve Eve to be a “softer” target?

Is it because woman are spiritually weaker than men?

perhaps, scripture does say:

1 Peter 3:7 CSB

7 Husbands, in the same way, live with your wives in an understanding way, as with a weaker partner, showing them honor as coheirs of the grace of life, so that your prayers will not be hindered.

However i dont believe this refers to a persons spiritual strength (vessel) refers to the body not the spirit.

Was it because the command not to eat came from Adam and not God?

Also a possibility.

We cant fill the blnk with our imagination, we have to rely on scripture, and we do not have enough raw biblical data to say Satans reasoning with any surety.

However, the case is not solved:

Point 3:

Eve went up alone against the greatest, most cunning nd most subtle creature in the universe.

Eve lost.

Her loss and deception plunged the world into sin chaoes and death.

However, let us look soberly at the incident.

By way of illastration:

If i loose a game of tennis aginst Roger Federer, yes i loose, i am defested.

But, it it worth remembering that i was defeated by the best of the best.

My lose is true and real, but also an almost inevitible loss.

Eve want alone up against the best of the best of the best decevers.

Yes, she lost and her loss cost humanity dearly.

However, lets look at Adam.

The bible makes it clear that Adam was not decieved.

True, he was not decieved by the best of the best, but even so Adam still sinned along with Eve.

What caused Adam to sin? Th best of the best?

No. Adam sinned because Eve simply offered it to him and “he took and ate”.

Eve is in a boxing ring against mankind greatest adverty, Adam rolls over like a scared puppy - not to Satan, but to his wife!

As this scence takes more shape, if we are honest, it is Adam who is looking worse.

Not to mention that when God confront Adam, he, without hisitation, throws the “bone of his bone, flesh of his flesh” under the bus of God’s judgment.