why did eve listen to the snake?

Answer 1

Because she was FEMALE! (please don't kill me!)

*runs in fear*

Answer 2

I'll try to avoid the literal vs. metaphorical arguments of what went on in the garden, and hope to get to the essence of it. Of course, I could be wrong, your mileage may vary, and my particular line of BS is no more (or less) valid than the other responses you will receive...

I don't think Eve did listen to the snake. I think Eve listened to Eve.

The snake and God both gave direction. God said "All of it except..." The snake said, basically, "God lied: you won't really die and he's just keeping good stuff from you."

Eve (and Adam, lest we be too hard on Eve) made choices. They chose to take action about which they had been warned, and chose to listen to a voice of "reason."

Temptation can be nasty like that. I've not been tempted by a steaming pile of poo for dinner... no warnings needed, but my waistline proves that I have repeatedly explained away consequences in the name of right now.

So, to answer your question directly (too late, geekboy)

Eve listened to the snake because it reinforced the position that she already wanted to take.

Answer 3

Eve was created a morally free being so she had the capacity to sin.

Satan misrepresented God as seeking to withhold from Adam and Eve something that would have been beneficial to them.

Eve yielded to the threefold temptation:
1. the lust of the flesh (good for food),
2. the lust of the eyes (pleasant to the eyes), and
3. the pride of life (a tree desirable to make one wise).

The person tempted was the woman, now alone, and at a distance from her husband, but near the forbidden tree. It was the devil's subtlety,

1. To assault the weaker vessel with his temptations. Though perfect in her kind, yet we may suppose her inferior to Adam in knowledge, and strength, and presence of mind at that time.

2. It was Satan's policy to enter into discourse with her when she was alone. Had eve kept close to the side out of which she was only recently taken, she would not have been so much exposed.

There are many temptations, to which solitude gives great advantage; but the communion of saints contributes much to their strength and safety.

3. He took advantage by finding her near the forbidden tree, and probably gazing upon the fruit of it, only to satisfy her curiosity. Those that would not eat the forbidden fruit must not come near the forbidden tree. Avoid it, pass not by it, Pro_4:15.

4. Satan tempted Eve, that by her he might tempt Adam; so he tempted Job by his wife, and Christ by Peter. It is Satan's policy to send temptations by unsuspected hands, and theirs that have most interest in us and influence upon us.

In doing so, she acted independently of Adam, her head. She should have consulted him instead of usurping his authority. In the words "she took of its fruit and ate" lie the explanation of all the sickness, sorrow, suffering, fear, guilt, and death that have plagued the human race ever since that time.

Eve was deceived (1Ti_2:14), but Adam acted willfully and in deliberate rebellion against God.

Secular humanism perpetuates Satan's lie, "You will be like God."

Answer 4

What if he was not
an actual snake?

What if he appeared
as an Angel of Light?

What if the "snake" was
used as an expression?

Example:

You "devil" you!
But in reality you are a Person.
But the word "devil" was
used as an expression
to get a point across.
For good or bad!

In this case for the
snake it was bad!

Answer 5

cuz women are weak

kidding! kidding!

i would say, cuz she had no reason to disobey the snake, just as adam might have agreed if the snake turned to him

some feminists and conspiracy experts might argue that those sexist religious scholars long ago wrote that, to make it seem that women are weak, and responsible for the fall of man (there are other passages in the testament where "women" are responsible for the fall of noble men)

even lilith was made out to be evil, even before the serpent and the fall of lucifer

Answer 6

You say half empty, I say half full.
You say Eve listened to the snake, I say
Neither Adam nor Eve listened to God.

Answer 7

Because she believed the lie that she would be like a god. The same lie he tells today and decieves millions.

Genesis 3:5 For God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil. 6 And when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree to be desired to make one wise, she took of the fruit thereof, and did eat, and gave also unto her husband with her; and he did eat.

Answer 8

Ultimately she listened because she doubted God. Was God telling her the truth? Was she missing out on some great experience that God was holding back from her? She trusted her own eyes and wisdom. She looked at the fruit and determined that yes, it was good for eating, and in the moment that she decided to bite into it, she determined that her wisdom and reasoning made more sense than what God had told her.

Answer 9

If I met a talking snake with legs, I might listen to it.

Answer 10

That serpent was Samiel. He was a Fallen Arch Angel who descended of his own free will after God cast Lucifer out of the heavens. Just because she listened to Samiel and not God does not make it a sin.

Answer 11

For the same reason Adam ate the apple. Temptation. Overcomes common sense and reason quite often.