During the psy-op attack by
the serpent [in The Garden], the man never said a word to either the serpent or the woman, though
he witnessed the entire thing from start to finish. He was standing right there
the whole time, watching the whole thing go down, and never said a word.
Interesting that, later, when YHWH
ELOHIM asked the man about his actions, his angst was against his wife, and
not against the serpent. He allowed her to take a bite knowing full-well she could
die. He watched for her to die. Only after she did not, he decided it would be
ok for him to taste the fruit. She offered him the fruit, but there is no
evidence she had to talk him into taking a bite.
Then, when things went
sideways, he threw her under the bus a second time. The first time was when he
watched her take a bite without saying a word. He was willing to let her die so
he could become a god. If complementarianism was divinely ordained, then the
sinless man would surely have stepped up to the plate to save his wife before
she ever stretched forth her hand to pick the fruit. He wouldn’t have let her
get anywhere near that fruit. She would not have taken a bite. And there would
have been no Fall.
But male-headship is not
divinely ordained. Both adults were created with perfect God-ordained
individual autonomy. It was the woman’s choice to listen to the serpent,
though, to her credit, she did argue the point with him. And it was the man’s
choice to eat the fruit without any argument with the serpent.
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