speculation?
why does God speak to Adam, not Woman, when He comes to the garden & they are hiding?
why does He interrogate Adam before Woman?
why does Adam change her name to Eve, but Eve not change Adam's name?
why does 1 Corinthians 11:3 say the head of the woman is man? in Hebrew, "Adam" means "man" and "the woman" is Eve's former name. does Paul know this when he writes a letter in Greek? does God know this when He puts that in His scripture?
other examples:
This is a faithful saying: For if we died with Him, We shall also live with Him.
(2 Timothy 2:11)
this doesn't indicate proximity in space or time. it indicates sharing an attribute: death, and life
The woman whom thou gavest with me
(Genesis 3:12)
this doesn't indicate proximity in space or time of the beginning of Adam & Woman. it indicates sharing a common attribute: their relationship with each other
Genesis 2:25 - Genesis 3:1
how much time elapses between these verses?
Genesis 2:8-2:9
4 event recounted in two verses. how much time passes between each? are the events even listed in chronological order?
Genesis 2:15 repeats one of the events in 2:8 - does time pass in verses 9-14?
Genesis 1:1- 1:2
how much time passes between the first two statements in the Bible?
Genesis 4:7-8
how much time passes between these two verses?
it is not uncommon for the Bible to omit periods of time between consecutive things being recorded - hours, days, even thousands of years - just as it's not uncommon for recurrence to be employed; stating the same narrative or giving the same principles multiple times from different perspectives or highlighting different key elements of it - as Genesis 1 compared with Genesis 2; not two separate creations of the cosmos, but 1, given twice in a row.
which is to say, Genesis 3:6 as it is written is not at all definitive in placing Adam side-by-side with Eve when she is lied to, tempted & deceived, and drawn away by her desires into eating. "with" indicates mutual participation, but not necessarily simultaneity. "and" indicates sequence but not necessarily immediacy. James 4:17, Ezekiel 33:6, Leviticus 19:17, Luke 17:3, Psalm 94:16 etc indicate that if Adam was present, undeceived, watching Woman sin without raising his voice, that would be sin for him - but this is never charged against him. there is much weight to the argument that he was not present there, and there is only an ambiguity in the language to support that he was.
what you keep presenting as tho 'conclusive' is not at all conclusive.
if you are calling Satan 'not a real being' but only a 'code word' for our own personal, sinful nature, then it raises the question about Judas of whom it is said, "Satan entered him" when he left the meal in the upper room, did Judas have no sinful nature before Satan 'entered' him?
The verse in The Book of Genesis chapter three does indicate proximity. That is what I was addressing. Adam's proximity to Eve. Adam was with Eve when the serpent was encountered in the forbidden tree.
Adam was not said to be the head of the woman until the fall.
The Book of Genesis chapter 3
To the woman he said, “I will surely multiply your pain in childbearing; in pain you shall bring forth children. Your desire hall be for your husband, and he shall rule over you.”
Adam and Eve were one flesh, being "married".
The Book of Genesis chapter 2: 24"Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and they shall become one
flesh."
Source:The Hebrew word for man is Adamah.
By examining a few other words derived from the child root אדם we can see a common meaning in them all. The Hebrew word אדמה (adamah) is the feminine form of אדם meaning "ground" (see Genesis 2:7). The word/name אדום (Edom) means "red". Each of these words has the common meaning of "red". Dam is the "red" blood, adamah is the "red" ground, edom is the color "red" and adam is the "red" man. There is one other connection between adam and adamah as seen in Genesis 2:7 which states that "the adam" was formed out of the adamah.
Entry for Strong's #2332 -
"Eve"=Gesenius' Hebrew and Chaldee Definition
חַוָּה i.q. חַיָּה (from the root חָוָה = חָיָה, comp. הַוָּה and הַיָּה), f.
(1) life. Hence [Eve], pr.n. of the first woman, as being the mother of all living (אֵם כָּל־חַי), Genesis 3:20, 4:1. LXX. Εὔα (comp. חִוִּי, Εὐαῖος ). Vulg. Heva.
(2) i.q. חַיָּה No. 2, Arab. حَىُّ a family, a tribe, especially of Nomades, hence a village of Nomades, a village [“prop. place where one lives, dwells, so Germ. leben in pr.n. Eisleben, Afchersleben”], (as on the contrary אֹהֶל, أَهْلُ properly a tent, hence a family, men), Numbers 32:41; Deuteronomy 3:14; Joshua 13:30; Judges 10:4; 1 Kings 4:13. Another etymology has commonly been sought from Arab. حوى to collect, to gather together, V. to roll oneself in a circle; which is altogether needless.
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חַוָּ֑ה חַוָּ֣ה חוה chavVah ḥaw·wāh ḥawwāh
After their fall, the woman was named Eve, mother of all living, by Adam. But before this she was called woman. The change in name was due to the change in identity. Now, after the fall, Adam and Eve knew both good and evil, as God did. And when God cursed the woman saying she would suffer pain in childbirth, that was what made her mother of all living. She was the first woman who would give life to human life on earth.
Woman,
ishshah in Hebrew.
The woman was already female and wife to Adam, after the fall she was going to bear children, so naturally her name, identity, would be that of Eve.