Wednesday, November 18, 2009

Beguiled

3:13 And the LORD God said unto the woman, What is this that thou hast done? And the woman said, The serpent beguiled me, and I did eat.

This is a lovely pass the buck.  Did he do it? No, she did it.  No, it did it.

The tricky point here is that what Adam said was technically true, while what the woman says here isn't quite.  The serpent didn't beguile her; it didn't lie to her or mislead her in any way.  Instead, the serpent simply told her the truth.  And she ate, which was the right thing to do.  So what's the problem?

The problem, of course, is that God didn't want her to do the right thing.

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