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She made me do it


Genesis 2:16-17          New English Translation

16 Then the Lord God commanded the man, “You may freely eat fruit from every tree of the orchard, 17 but you must not eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, for when you eat from it, you will surely die.”

 

She made me do it

 

God persuaded and prohibited but never cohered to the point

If Adam was so willed, he could make a choice. God would not restrain him

Even though it would bring death for freedom is not shackled

It is free to will as such, and with the freedom to maintain this

 

Adam was not formed incapable of sinning.

God may prohibit, but the responsibility was the man's

To want to listen and obey was Adam’s prerogative

Although he blamed Eve when he got into a jam

 

Jan Wienen

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