In Genesis chapters 1 and 2, we learn that God created Adam and then for an unknown time they were both together, talking and walking with one another in the garden. In chapter 2 God placed Adam in the garden with the purpose to "work and take care of it." We also learn that God brought all the animals to Adam so he could name them. We can assume that Adam knows who he is and his purpose.
Adam exists in unprecedented freedom. There is only one thing he is forbidden to do and that is to eat the fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. God, the Trinity, spend intimate time with Adam, teaching him about his world and fathering him on how to work it and take care of it. The Trinity must have been working to show Adam their nature, their character, and their unconditional love for him. They allowed him unbelievable and unimaginable access to them, so Adam would come to love them as much as they love him. Yet in spite of their relationship with Adam the Trinity still said that it was not good for him to be alone so they made Eve. She is described as the crown of creation.
The Trinity had a fellowship with one another before the world existed and it was because of their fellowship with each other and the joy through it that they wanted others to share in a similar fellowship as well, but there were no others to share their fellowship with so they had to create them. First they made the angels and then they made mankind. While Adam was alive without the company of Eve, he must have learned about the fellowship the Trinity enjoyed. They might have taught him how they wanted mankind to enjoy such a fellowship as well. They must have taught him, showed him and explained to him how such a fellowship is possible and how wonderful it is. But, to enjoy a fellowship in his own way, there had to be another to have it with, and the Trinity gave Adam the gift of Eve. I think it is interesting, that the Trinity did not give Adam another man to have a fellowship with but a woman. So a man's first and most important fellowship will always be with his opposite. The subsequent fellowships that will come with other men are important in their own way but they are secondary to Eve.
The Trinity had a fellowship with one another before the world existed and it was because of their fellowship with each other and the joy through it that they wanted others to share in a similar fellowship as well, but there were no others to share their fellowship with so they had to create them. First they made the angels and then they made mankind. While Adam was alive without the company of Eve, he must have learned about the fellowship the Trinity enjoyed. They might have taught him how they wanted mankind to enjoy such a fellowship as well. They must have taught him, showed him and explained to him how such a fellowship is possible and how wonderful it is. But, to enjoy a fellowship in his own way, there had to be another to have it with, and the Trinity gave Adam the gift of Eve. I think it is interesting, that the Trinity did not give Adam another man to have a fellowship with but a woman. So a man's first and most important fellowship will always be with his opposite. The subsequent fellowships that will come with other men are important in their own way but they are secondary to Eve.
So the task of teaching Eve fell to Adam. He was probably instructed to tell Eve about the Trinity, their nature, character, and love. The responsibility fell to Adam because he had walked with them while Eve never had the singleness of time alone with them. Everything that Eve learned about the Trinity was shared with her by Adam, and it appears as though Adam chose for some reason not to share everything with her. For instance, God told Adam he was free to eat of every tree in the garden but you must not eat of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, yet that is not what Adam told Eve! She said to Lucifer, we were indeed told by God that we cannot eat of the tree in the middle of the garden and we cannot even touch it or we will die. Amazing, Adam put words into God's mouth that the creator did not say. It is as though Adam was trying to scare Eve rather than guide her and show her the purity and beauty of a fellowship with the Trinity. This is presumptuous, but perhaps Adam was fearful that Eve would choose the Trinity over him and as a result he decides to keep some things to himself to prevent her from getting too close to them.
If this is true then this means Adam must not have trusted the Trinity even though they revealed to him who they are and how deep is their love for him. When Lucifer told Eve you will not surely die, you will instead become like God. She had a choice. Remember she was told if you even touch the fruit you will die, yet here is this serpent telling me I can eat it and be like God. Who do I trust? She trusted Satan, and picked a fruit. Once she picked a fruit she knew immediately that she had been lied to and it must have been by the Trinity because Adam told me they said to him if you touch the tree you will die. Yet here I am holding the fruit and I remain very much alive and kicking, so I can probably also eat it and become just like God. Eve must have believed the Trinity was misleading them because if I can touch the tree and live I can probably eat the fruit and live as well. She might have concluded I wonder what else the Trinity is hiding from us?
We can see that Adam did Eve a great disservice by not being candid, open, and truthful to her about the Trinity. She has legitimate doubts not brought about by the Trinity, but by one who walked with the Trinity yet chose to put his own spin on their words. All these centuries later the decisions by Adam towards his wife continue to haunt our world, and the brokenness all over the world that is so deep remains the result of Adam dropping the ball even though he walked with the Trinity and knew them intimately.
We can see that Adam did Eve a great disservice by not being candid, open, and truthful to her about the Trinity. She has legitimate doubts not brought about by the Trinity, but by one who walked with the Trinity yet chose to put his own spin on their words. All these centuries later the decisions by Adam towards his wife continue to haunt our world, and the brokenness all over the world that is so deep remains the result of Adam dropping the ball even though he walked with the Trinity and knew them intimately.
