Quote Originally Posted by Rock Anthony View Post
AJ,

By "save or redeem his wife", do you mean Adam had sex with Eve in order to deceive others into believing she is pregnant with his child?
Gen 3:17 And unto Adam he said, Because thou hast hearkened unto the voice of thy wife, and hast eaten of the tree, of which I commanded thee, saying, Thou shalt not eat of it: cursed is the ground for thy sake; in sorrow shalt thou eat of it all the days of thy life;
Eve: I'm preganant with the evil man's child. Have sex with me and pass this child off as your own.

Adam: OK.

Think about it. They've eaten from the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil. So now they are aware that the serpent is evil. Now they are aware that Eve is pregnant with the evil man's child. Now it's time for a coverup.

And we find in the scripture that Adam also has eaten from the tree - but by way of Eve. Eve is not only beguiled to have sex with the evil man, but is also beguiled into convincing Adam to conspire the coverup. Adam, in going along with this conspiracy (sourced from the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil), has therefore eaten from the tree as well.

If I place myself in Adam's shoes (if they wore shoes back then, not sure, lol):

  1. I freely have sex with my wife, no guilt, no shame, I'm not aware that I'm naked.
  2. But then I have sex with my wife in an effort to deceive God. Now I feel guilt and shame - not for the sex act, but for lying to God.
  3. When God stops by for a visit, my guilt forces me to cover myself (groin), for I've attempted to deceive God, using a sex act to do so.
At the very least, the foregoing does not seem to contradict the scriptures.

After Adam "ate" from the tree he became a fallen man. That being said, I'm qualified to place myself in Adam's shoes. Doing so helps me to relate to what happened back then. Now the scripture reads like history and not like fantasy.
I don't believe Adam had intercourse with his wife in order to deceive anyone about who got her pregnant. I believe that Adam had intercourse with his wife in order to take her sin unto himself in order to keep and redeem her from her sin.

That is why his punishment was not as severe as his wife's punishment; he still disobeyed God but not in the same manner that his wife did.

The guilt and shame stems from disobeying God's Command to not eat of the Tree and the subsequent "unclean" intercourse which took place. They were made aware of Good and Evil by taking in the word of the Tree ("eating" of it) and they both took part in unclean intercourse as a result; the Woman with the Tree ("touching" the Tree) and then Adam with the Woman ("touching" his wife) shortly afterward.

Hence the two seedlines; Cain (tiller of the ground) and Abel (keeper of sheep).