According
to Genesis 2:16-17, "And the LORD God commanded
the man, saying, Of every tree of the garden
thou mayest freely eat: But of the tree of the
knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat
of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof
thou shalt surely die." God did not tell
Adam and Eve to not touch the fruit on the tree
of knowledge of good and evil; He told them not
to eat of it. According to Genesis 3:3, it
was Eve that said that God said that they
couldn't eat of it nor touch it, which means she
must have added to God's words and told the
Serpent a lie.
Also
no where in the book of Genesis does it say that
Eve had physical, sexual intercourse with
the Serpent. However, the word
"intercourse" can also mean
1.
dealings
or
communication
between
individuals,
groups,
countries,
etc.
2. interchange
of thoughts,
feelings,
etc. according to http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/intercourse so
Satan did have that type of intercourse with
Eve, and Satan's seed was the words that he
planted in Eve's mind which she believed
instead of believing God's words.
Eve could have rejected Satan's seed (his
words) from her mind, but she chose not
to. Instead the Serpent's seed bore the
fruit of unbelief in her mind and spirit when
she acted upon his words, and ate of the fruit
of the tree of knowledge of good and evil in
disobedience to God's words. Jesus
said in Luke 8:11, The word is the seed of
God, and in John 6:63, Jesus said, "It is the
spirit that quickeneth: the flesh profiteth
nothing: the words that I speak unto you are
spirit, and they are life." However,
Satan, the enemy sows tares as well
according to Matthew 13:25 which means he plants
seeds of doubt, unbelief and lies so that people
don't believe God's words. Instead they believe
Satan's words which in this case Eve did so she
received Satan's seed (his words) into her mind
and spirit and believed him. His words produced
the fruit of unbelief from the seed of unbelief
(no faith in God's words) and it produced
the fuit of unrighteousness (spiritual
fornication) from Satan's seed of
unrighteousness. However, Galatians
5:22-23 says, "But the fruit of the Spirit is
love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness,
goodness, FAITH, meekness, temperance:
against such here is no law." Ephesians
5:9 says, For the fruit of the Spirit is in all
goodness and righteousness and
truth:" Satan's seed and fruit was the
opposite of the God's seed (the word) and
the fruit of the Holy Spirit.
The Bible
does not say that Eve had sexual intercourse
with the Serpent, who is Satan, but she did
commit spiritual fornication with the Serpent.
Another example of this would be the great
whore or harlot in Rev. 17 with whom the kings
of the earth committed fornication. Instead of
committing sexual fornication with the harlot,
they commit spiritual fornication.
So why was the
Serpent's punishment to go on his belly and
eat dust all the days of his life (Genesis
3:14)? To go on his belly all the days of his
life means that he is in a permanent lying
down position because of his lying
to Eve which means that he is permanently
fallen all the days of his life and not
upright and he can never repent of his sin.
Why do Eve and
Adam make aprons to cover up themselves when
they saw that they were naked after eating
of the fruit of the tree of knowledge of good
and evil, and why was Adam afraid when he saw he
was naked and hid from God? You thought
that Eve had sexual intercourse with the
Serpent, and that was supposedly her reason for
covering up herself with an apron.
However, you never said anything about Adam
having sex with the Serpent, and that being
Adam's reason for covering up himself
with an apron. In fact, Eve gave Adam
the fruit and he did eat it so that would leave
out Adam having sex with the Serpent.
However, Adam also received the the seed of
Serpent's words into his mind and spirit
when he disbelieved God's words to not eat the
fruit. So both Eve and Adam
committed spiritual fornication with the
Serpent by believing his lie. I think they
knew that they committed spiritual fornication
with the Serpent, and covering
up themselves with aprons represented
them trying to cover up the spiritual
fornication that they had committed with the
Serpent which would have been exposed (naked)
unless they tried to hide it from
God. However, God sees all our
sins before we even confess the truth
about them to Him.
As for Adam's
reasons for eating the fruit from the tree
of knowledge of good and evil, did he not want
to leave his bride Eve alone in a fallen
state so he decided to join her by eating
the fruit so that he can also become a
fallen creature? Or did Adam decide to
disobey the Lord and eat the fruit because Eve
did not physically drop dead on the day that she
ate it so he thought neither would he although
they spiritually died? The Lord did say,
"... for in the day that thou eatest
thereof thou shalt surely die." Or
did Adam also want to become as the gods
knowing good and evil as the Serpent suggested,
and why should Eve become as the gods and not
Adam become as the gods as
well? I guess we'll have to get the
answers from Adam one day as to why he did what
he did.
John 6:44 tells
us that Satan is "a liar and the Father of it"
(the lies.) I wonder if there would be fewer
lies told if a person was to imagine that Satan
was the Father of their lie if the lie was
produced by having sex with Satan or lying
with Satan. However, the lie isn't
conceived and produced by having sex with Satan,
but Satan is still the Father of the lie which
was created. It is possible to commit spiritual
adultery or fornication, or even spiritual
murder by wishing someone was dead so the Lord
wants us "to gird up the loins of your
mind.." (1 Peter 1:13) so that we don't commit
these types of sin. Also Ephesians 6:14
says, "Stand therefore, having your loins girt
about with truth, and having on the breastplate
of righteousness." We are not to cover our
loins with fig leaves to hide our sins, but we
are to expose the truth about our sins by
confessing both our spiritual sins and our
sins in the flesh to the Lord so that we
can ask forgiveness for them.