Genesis 3:1

Now the serpent was more crafty than any of the wild animals the Lord God had made. He said to the woman, “Did God really say, ‘You must not eat from any tree in the garden’?”

From Background Notes [BN] for September 7^th & 8^th written by Pastor Bob Brown:

Allowing this conversation to take place, the woman enters dangerous territory, for she is permitting a nonhuman to influence her thinking.

Presumably this creature, though sentient and apparently rational, does not have the divine image as the woman and her husband do. Her first obligation is to God and the second is to her husband. With regard to God, she must actively exercise her image-of-God qualities and take charge of this intruder into the garden of God, exercising dominion over it. With regard to her husband, she must consult with him as a peer, seeking wisdom and insight together. [BN,6]

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