I believe she never did... If Adam said to Eve that God said do not eat the fruit, it would be natural for he to say God said not to eat it. I fault him for not protecting her.
Don't forget, I was replying to what you said;
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she did not reject the Word, she rejected what her husband told her.
The Scriptural truth is, "She rejected God's Word". But that would mean your statement was an error. This represents what Adam and Eve's story is about. They messed up. They knew it, just like you know Eve rejected God's Word. But there is a part of you that lusts to justify yourself, to preserve your judgments. Jesus speaks to this in John 3:19-21. This exists in every free will human. It is our flesh we are born with, just as it was a flesh Adam and Eve were born with. I struggle with the same thing every day.
The truth is, Eve chose of her own free will to reject God's Word, and live by the imaginations of her own heart instead. And the free will ability to choose to obey, or choose to disobey isn't "Evil", it's Holy and Good. The whole point of our existence is to "Learn" to choose the good and reject the evil. To choose God over the free will lusts of our own flesh. This is what we do when we walk in the flesh
Is. 14:
13 For thou hast said in thine heart, I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God: I will sit also upon the mount of the congregation, in the sides of the north: 14 I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will be like the most High.
Just like Eve did.
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And when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree to be desired to make one wise, she took of the fruit thereof, and did eat, and gave also unto her husband with her; and he did eat."
I am guilty of this just the other day. You said something that offended me a little about debating the "always right" Calvinist. My flesh was a little butthurt, and wanted retaliation, justification. So I posted part of a sentence you gave me in a Private Message, and used it for a malicious purpose. I know the Word of God, I know the importance of humility and the reasons for a private message. But I rejected it all in my mind, and let my flesh reign in my body and for what? What was gained, how was God Glorified? And what spirit promoted such a behavior? So now, I am so sorry, and angry at myself, because I shouldn't have done that, and I knew better. But I did and nothing I can ever do will change it.
Like Eve I threw God's Judgment away, and replaced it with my own, and for what? To FEED my own Flesh. And I can say, "I behaved in this manner "because" you did this. Or "because" you said that, just like Adam and Eve did. But what is the truth? I knew better, and I did it anyway. And you had nothing really to do with it, because as Jesus says, "Nothing from without can defile a person, only what is within.
This is the lesson from God to us through the Adam and Eve story. This is why God blamed Eve for Eve's Sin, and Adam for Adam's Sin. Because they chose to do, what they both knew God instructed not to do. And then tried to justify themselves for doing it.
And this is written specifically for me, so that I might learn not to lust after what they lusted after. But I took the Armor of God off, and directed my own footsteps.
3 But I fear, lest by any means, as the serpent beguiled Eve through his subtilty, so your minds should be corrupted from the simplicity "that is in Christ".
