Good points, and as for Eve, exactly; the serpent completely avoids the actual commandment, which in our case would be what the Word says, and especially when it speaks in plain emphatic statements. The actual command was,
"You shall not eat of it", while the rest is consequences,
"For the day in which you eat thereof, dying you shall die", but the serpent avoids the first portion when the woman repeats it, (the actual command), and instead proceeds to discu
sss the
consequences and supposed benefits,
(while lying about the consequences), of eating from the fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. It is like saying,
"Well, come on now, look at it, it is good for food and pleasant to the eyes; you will not actually die right here and right now, will you?" So the woman is indeed deceived because she either has no clue concerning the
spiritual death of separation for breaking the commandment, or, she does not realize the impact of such a separation from the Creator. She appears to see death as only being meant in a purely physical way, (and thus we see from the very beginning that when Elohim speaks it has layered meaning; much more than a surface-level depth).
If the woman had stayed with the actual commandment and plain emphatic Word of Elohim she would not have eaten because He says, "You shall not eat of it." The dialectic ignores the plain meaning of clear emphatic statements and instead desires to discu
sss the so-called
benefits, (consequences), of alternative
choices to the plain emphatic statements found in scripture. Another clearly displayed aspect of the encounter is that the serpent shows himself a murderer; not by any physical actions or deeds, but by his words, for he murders the woman by way of the dialectic, that is, in smooth talking the woman into breaking the commandment and separating herself from the Creator. The serpent uses deflection, (ignoring the outright commandment), and entices the woman with lies by perverting the consequences into so-called benefits, (which are temporary at best; lust of the flesh).
Yet another fine example of the dialectic.
