What if Eve had not followed Adam out of the Garden?

123. Eve was, then, the first woman to forsake her (heavenly) kindred for her husband. She reversed God’s marriage law,—”Therefore shall a man forsake his father and his mother, and cleave to his wife.” Had Eve remained steadfast with God, Adam might through the double [...]

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EVE was not expelled from Eden!

95. The rest of the story (excepting Genesis 3:16, which we next explain), on the very face of it, bears evidence of Eve’s favor with God, through her confession and faith. After the eating, God assigns to Adam his particular vocation (Genesis 3:19). Adam was to earn his bread by tilling the soil, “till thou [...]

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God nowhere says that Eve’s sorrowful and oppressed part is “because” she has done anything!

94. It is not by one single verse, such as Genesis 3:16 (the correct translation and interpretation of which is doubtful-see future lessons), that Eve’s greater culpability can be established, in spite of clear statements to the contrary, and many other incidental Scriptural proofs. For instance, God asked Adam, “Hast thou eaten of the tree [...]

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Bible Instruction on Adam and Eve’s Conduct

LESSON 12
BIBLE INSTRUCTION AS TO ADAM’S AND EVE’S CONDUCT.
90. After the fourth chapter of Genesis, Eve is never referred to again in the O. T., and Adam is mentioned only twice,—in Job 31:33, “If I, like Adam, covered my transgression, by hiding my iniquity in my bosom,” and Hosea 6:7, (R. V.), “They, like Adam, [...]

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Adam’s Responsibility

36. We do not know certainly how the decline in Adam began, but we should not overlook one fact: The man (the woman side of humanity being as yet undeveloped), was placed in the garden “to dress and keep it” (2:15). Two duties, not one, were laid upon Adam. This second word is the same [...]

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