Can you imagine being Eve? The first woman created. No question of who she is created for. No question of who her husband should be or if she has made a mistake. The mother of all mankind. One thing for sure, she couldn't look at anyone else's husband and wonder why hers didn't act like that.
I guess the thing we attribute most to Eve is the fall. But the bible says she was deceived. She was deceived while Adam sinned openly, meaning he had knowledge of it. How many times have you been deceived? She had children. She had heartache from them. One of her sons killed his brother. The first murder. But God gave her another son. Genesis 4:25 Adam lay with his wife again, and she gave birth to a son and named him Seth, saying, "God has granted me another child in place of Abel, since Cain killed him." 26 Seth also had a son, and he named him Enosh. At that time men began to call on the name of the LORD.
The bible says at that time men began to call on the name of the Lord. In other words, they started preaching the words of God. Eve had relationship with God. She had relationship with her husband and she had relationship with her children.
So to me, although we can see that Eve was not perfect and that we have all suffered because of her deception, she was still a good woman. After her sin, she got back up and lived. She did not dwell on her wrong doing. She asked forgiveness and turned from the sin. Maybe instead of remembering Eve for the fall, we should remember her as the mother of mankind, the example of a wife she was. I know that I do not want to be remembered for my sins.
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