WOMAN, WHAT IS THIS YOU DONE?

[Genesis 3:13]

And the Lord God said to the woman, “What is this you have done?” The woman said, “The serpent deceived me, and I ate.” [NKJV]

The Lord God asked the woman, “Why did you do this?” She replied, “The snake tricked me into eating it.” [GNT]

Then the Lord God said to the woman, “What is this you have done?” “The serpent deceived me,” she replied, “and I ate.” [BSB]

God's question to the woman was this, "What is this you have done?" or "Why did you do this?" But the woman's reply was that she was deceived by the Serpent and she ate it. What about the part where "She gave the fruit to her husband and made him eat the forbidden fruit from her hand?" She did not say anything about that part except the part where the Serpent deceived her and she ate, without mentioning part where the Serpent used her or she used her hand to bringdown her man or husband.

In the Bible verse above, God's question to the first Woman, (and to every woman), is "What is this you have done or what is this you are doing?" But hardly you find a woman that truly knows and answers this question about what evil she did or yet doing, without mentioning what another person has done or playing the victim for her to be pitied even where she's the perpetrator.

Woman, build up into taking responsibility (which is authority) for your own actions without shifting blame to another person as the cause that made you do them either in retaliation (payback), in rape/use of force, in deception or in seduction. Be the leader (author) in your own actions, not the follower (victim) in your own actions. Try to find the rationality (objectivity), not just the emotions (feelings/instincts), of what you are doing or about to do. Not that you didn't find objectivity the first time you were deceived into doing it, but that when it backfired you suddenly changed from seeing objectivity the way you saw it when you began it, and then you ran to emotional support of blaming another person for it. Though this change or swinging makes you bit secure and free from some blames, it also make you lose your leadership authority or command of headship. You become like men who make promises or decisions when the conditions are favorable, but when the conditions change their words also change and they fail their own promises showing that they should not be trusted nor entrusted with anything headship/authority for being unstable or swinging to easier/favorable sides for convenience in betrayal of trust.

Sarah was the one who gave Hagar as wife to Abraham, and later she turned back to blame Abraham for Hagar's despising her after she conceived. A shift from the initial objectivity she saw at the decision.

The objectivity that the Woman (Eve) first saw that made her do what she did was actually the most important part of the answer she should have stood up with in answering this God's Question to a Woman, "What is this you have done?" If she had maintained her stance on the objectivity or rational that made her took those decisions of eating and making her husband eat the forbidden fruit, her actions would still be wrong but her motive would gain some weight and respect for God to still allow her headship or authority with the man. But she failed both in her actions and in her rationality/objectivity of this "what" she had done because she was emotionally driven to blame, implicate or punish the Serpent by playing the victim or follower to the Serpent, instead of playing the leader or author to the man; or both. So she gained the vengeance against the Serpent, but lost authority with the man. Yes, the Serpent became the most cursed creature because of deceiving the woman, but also because the woman was deceived according to her own answer in the verse above she was not allowed to head a family or God's church over a man there in.

[1 Timothy 2:12,14] — "But I do not permit a woman to teach, nor to use authority over a man, but to be in quietness. … And Adam was not deceived, but the woman, having been deceived, came into transgression."

That word "Deceived" or "Lied to" was first used by a woman in the top Bible verse above, to describe or market (actually "demarket" what she had done. Though Satan as the Serpent had been a deceiver or liar, the word used for him was "Subtle or Cunning" until the Woman introduced the use of "Deception or Deceit" in describing what the Serpent did instead of her describing what she did when God asked her.

Supposing she "marketed" this which she had done, bringing out the objectivity, rationale, intention, inspiration or motive, she had for doing what she had done, in answering God's question to her: She would have repeated the contents in 'Genesis 3:6' as her drive or objectivity, and then humbly plead for mercy of God: would be more noble than being deceived.

[Genesis 3:6] — "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 to her husband with her; and he did eat."

Everything in "Genesis 3:6" was true about that tree and its fruit, and though it is not enough reason to disobey God, it is far more understandable reason if that was her rationality or objectivity — she was a discoverer or she saw things that no man saw or knew about the tree and her quest for knowledge, discernment and wisdom, for both herself and her husband made her to eat and to give to her husband also, hoping they become wiser together: but she did not mean to rebel against God's Word for the Serpent told her God would understand if she did what she had done in the quest for becoming more like God and having the eyes of mankind opened to know good and evil. How about this as the Woman's answer to the God's Question to her, "What is this you have done?"

PCHC:
WOMAN, WHAT IS THIS YOU DONE?

[Genesis 3:13]
And the Lord God said to the woman, “What is this you have done?”
The woman said, “The serpent deceived me, and I ate.” [NKJV]

The Lord God asked the woman, “Why did you do this?”
She replied, “The snake tricked me into eating it.” [GNT]

Then the Lord God said to the woman, “What is this you have done?”
“The serpent deceived me,” she replied, “and I ate.” [BSB]

John 8:10 - 11
10And Jesus having bent himself back, and having seen no one but the woman, said to her,
‘Woman, where are those — thine accusers?
Did no one pass sentence upon thee?’
11and she said, ‘No one, Sir;’
and Jesus said to her, ‘Neither do I pass sentence on thee;
be going on, and no more sin.’

The woman, anticipating, gave, a why answer, instead of giving an answer to the what question, she was asked of, by God

What the woman, clearly had done, was ate the fruit, she was not allowed to eat (i.e. at least not eat, at that moment in time), and shared it with the man, Adam.

Now, the reasons why the woman, ate the fruit were, primarily because she was deceived by the serpent and secondarily because she gave in to, lust of the eyes, lust of the flesh and pride of life.

Right from there, fast forward, 4000 years later (i.e. 2000 years ago), the woman, (i.e. archetype of Eve) evidently, just as seen in John 8:10 - 11 above, had since been absolved of blame and given the green light to start again with a clean slate.
Praise God. Hallelujah!

_{Personal text: Jesus is not a theologian. He is God who told stories.}