"Not Quite Right!"

 "Lo, this only have I found, that God hath made man upright; but they have sought out many inventions." (Ecclesiastes 7:29 KJV)

  "Once you were dead because of your disobedience and your many sins. You used to live in sin, just like the rest of the world, obeying the devil - the commander of the powers in the unseen world. He is the spirit at work in the hearts of those who refuse to obey God. All of us used to live that way, following the passionate desires and inclinations of our sinful nature. By our very nature we were subject to God's anger, just like everyone else." (Ephesians 2:1-3 NLT)

 By the way, I didn't go into a discussion of the thousand women, because that was Solomon's experience; something I don't think any other man has gone through, so I had no right to try and speak about it or try to explain it. The only thing that I can possibly say, if there was a hint of definition to his point: most women are very emotional and sensitive to any type of rejection or lack of understanding what they want or need. This was precisely what Eve, (I believe,) experienced in the Garden! 

 Let me try very carefully to explain what I am trying to say. Adam was the man, who God made to guard and protect all that was in the Garden. God gave Adam the ability to be, "upright," which actually means, straight, correct, right. With that, God gave Adam the assignment to name all of the animals, which, while doing so, Adam discovered that something wasn't right. 

 It was Adam's correct observation that God had intended for and prepared for him to need; after which God made from Adam a woman; which Adam called her, because she came from man, which he was. This now became a union of one, man and woman living together; they became one flesh by bounding together with one another.

 Without trying to make any comparisons about who is what and why, Adam was supposed to be the one that was watching over and protecting his wife! However, (and this is just my opinion,) there was this thing that Adam wanted, but he was too fearful to directly take it himself. Oddly enough, God gave him this woman to help him manage and look over the Garden. 

 God had told Adam, 'You may eat of tree, except that one in the midst of the Garden,' but somehow, Eve added something to that command, which was, 'don't even touch it.' Either it was Adam who told Eve, 'Don't even touch,' or it was Eve's choice to say it, because she had witnessed Adam touching it and admiring the fruit! 

 There is more to this than what meets the eye, because if Adam did this to entice Eve, in order to make her want what he wanted, she was being set up for something that either Adam expected, or felt was a weakness for her to be led into. I know it might sound crazy, but you have got to understand that man was made with the ability to invent and plan and think through all sorts of ways to get things done.

 Eve was deceived because Adam allowed it to happen, and that's just saying it nicely, because he might have more than just allowed it, he might have actually set her up for it, just to see what might happen...

""The human heart is the most deceitful of all things, and desperately wicked. Who really knows how bad it is? But I, the LORD, search all hearts and examine secret motives. I give all people their due rewards, according to what their actions deserve."" (Jeremiah 17:9-10 NLT)