802. Let us seek for a clearer understanding of this matter: All Scripture is, in one sense or another, the account of a great struggle between right and wrong, or, more properly speaking, between beings arrayed on the side of right and wrong. We are to be instructed which is the right and which is the wrong side. Let us go back, then, to the time when there was no such struggle involving the human family. In imagination we stand, now, on the very edge of human history, in God’s great calm, when He had just made the world, and pronounced all His creatures “very good.” Presently the calm is broken, first by a mere ripple on God’s great ocean of calm, at the edge where we stand. Then occurs the entrance of Satan into the Garden. Then comes sin in humanity (Genesis 3:6), and now it is more than a ripple. Next, an opposing force of good strikes against the wave, tossing it yet higher,¾that is Eve’s confession, and denunciation of the Deceiver. Thus the war begins,¾for God puts enmity between Satan and the woman, and between the “seed” of each. Like a great billow, rushing in an ever-widening circle, onward to the end of time, ever with increasing violence, the strife rages, social right and social wrong in fierce conflict. This was in Christ’s mind that day that the disciples asked Him these questions.
see also Eve’s Choice and Adam’s. Move over “TRADITION”: the ultimate “log and splinter” deflection EXPOSED!
