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The Council on Biblical Manhood and Womanhood has published a book called Recovering Biblical Manhood and Womanhood<\/em> and on page 73, John Piper and Wayne Grudem write that Adam was ordained as the one responsible for the life of the garden.\u00a0 The reference is in response to a quote from 1 Timothy 2:14 where Adam is said to have not been deceived. Some take this as a proof that women are more gullible than men and easier to deceive, but Grudem and Piper say that this is not so.\u00a0 Instead, CBMW brings a new meaning to \u201cnot deceived\u201d.\u00a0 They say \u201cnot deceived\u201d means that Adam was not approached by the deceiver.\u00a0 They write:<\/p>\n If this is the proper understanding, then what Paul meant in 1 Timothy 2:14 was this:\u00a0 \u201cAdam was not deceived (that is, Adam was not approached by the deceiver and did not carry on direct dealings with the deceiver), but the woman was deceived and became a transgressor (that is, she was the one who took up dealings with the deceiver and was led through her direct interaction with him into deception and transgression).\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Since when does \u201cnot deceived\u201d mean that you must have a direct interaction with the deceiver?\u00a0 There are many false teachers on \u201cChristian\u201d television today, but can we honestly say that since these false teachers are not directly speaking to an individual listener that this means the one who falls hook. line and sinker into their deception is \u201cnot deceived\u201d when they believe everything the false teacher says?\u00a0 That wouldn\u2019t make any sense at all.\u00a0 Someone can be just as deceived by merely listening the same as the one who is directly targeted.\u00a0 When scripture says that Adam was \u201cnot deceived\u201d it means just that.\u00a0 Adam was not deceived<\/strong> by the lies spoken by the serpent even though he was with Eve while she was being influenced to believe the lie.<\/p>\n One wonders what is the reason for redefining what \u201cnot deceived\u201d actually means?\u00a0 The reason becomes quite clear as one connects together John Piper\u2019s and Wayne Grudem\u2019s assertions about satan\u2019s knowledge concerning an unrevealed \u201corder\u201d of importance that makes only the male God\u2019s official spokesman and defender thus causing Piper and Grudem to see more in the account of the fall than is revealed in the pages of the bible.<\/p>\n \u2026the point is that when God\u2019s order of leadership is repudiated it brings damage and ruin.\u00a0 Men and women are both more vulnerable to error and sin when they forsake the order that God has intended.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n What is \u201cGod\u2019s order of leadership\u201d and how is it \u201crepudiated\u201d?\u00a0 Apparently satan had a hidden<\/em> knowledge that caused him to know<\/em> that Adam was to be approached as he was ordained to be the representative of humanity and ordained as the defender of God.<\/p>\n Satan\u2019s subtlety is that he knew the created order God had ordained for the good of the family, and he deliberately defied it by ignoring the man and taking up his dealings with the woman.\u00a0 Satan put her in the position of spokesman, leader and defender.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Let\u2019s stop here a minute and ask some questions:<\/p>\n 1.\u00a0 How do we know that satan knew there was a \u201ccreated order\u201d that God had ordained?\u00a0 God didn\u2019t make Adam the president-ruler and Eve the vice-president ruler of the earth.\u00a0 God told them both to rule the earth and subdue it and there is no biblical evidence of an \u201corder\u201d of their rule.\u00a0 How could satan have known more than God revealed to Adam and his wife?\u00a0 How come satan knows more about God\u2019s purpose for man than God revealed in the scriptures?<\/p>\n 2.\u00a0 How could satan know about a \u201ccreated order\u201d for the family when God never made Adam a ruler over Eve?\u00a0 God did tell Adam that he was to be a watchman over the garden before Eve was created, but he didn\u2019t tell Adam that he was to rule over his wife nor did God tell Adam he was to be her spokesman.\u00a0 Did God give more information to satan about Adam\u2019s rulership than he gave to man?\u00a0 Also how could Adam\u2019s command to guard the garden be taken to mean that only Adam was to speak for God?\u00a0 If God meant that only Adam could be his spokesman, wouldn\u2019t God have said that?<\/p>\n 3.\u00a0 If satan \u201cdeliberately defied\u201d God\u2019s ordained spokesman (the man) and instead he spoke directly to Eve in order to trick her into defying her husband\u2019s ordained role of spokesman for the family, how come God never blamed the serpent for his failure to first address the man?\u00a0 How come Adam did not accuse the serpent of sin for \u201cbypassing\u201d him?\u00a0 Lastly why did Eve not admit to having been deceived into becoming a \u201cspokesman\u201d for Adam or for God?\u00a0 Why did she only admit to being deceived into eating the fruit?<\/p>\n The answers to these questions are important especially since Piper and Grudem make such an issue of Adam being the designated leader that they make going past the designated leader to be the initial cause of ruin in the garden.\u00a0 They also make the bypassing of Adam so important, it becomes an excuse for Adam\u2019s sin.<\/p>\n Men and women are both more vulnerable to error and sin<\/em> when they forsake the order that God has intended. (My emphasis)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Let\u2019s see if we can re-phrase Piper and Grudem\u2019s argument.<\/p>\n Adam was deceived by the lies of the serpent just as Eve was, but he was considered \u201cnot deceived\u201d because his special role as spokesman for mankind, designated leader and defender of God was deliberately bypassed by satan.\u00a0 Satan\u2019s first temptation was not a lie about God or a temptation to eat the fruit, but it was a temptation for Eve to illegally speak for God when she had never been ordained as a defender of God.\u00a0 Eve also had never been ordained to make a decision for herself.\u00a0 When she decided to take the fruit and eat it, she sinned against Adam bringing great \u201cdamage and ruin\u201d by forsaking her designated decision-making leader.<\/p>\n Any thoughts?<\/p>\n<\/body>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Council on Biblical Manhood and Womanhood has published a book called Recovering Biblical Manhood and Womanhood and on page 73, John Piper and Wayne Grudem write that Adam was ordained as the one responsible for the life of the garden.\u00a0 The reference is in response to a quote from 1 Timothy 2:14 where Adam is said to have not been deceived. Some take this as a proof that women are more gullible than men and easier to deceive, but…<\/p>\n