Eve had the honor of being the first human to prophecy in speaking the word of God and in telling the devil to "...get behind her".   However, she did not stand in her rebuffing of that devil.  She is also the first person to see God's grace.   The righteous fall seven times but get back up again.  Google it.   Eve is God's first evangelist and minister of grace. It is by grace that you have been saved through faith. It is the gift of God. Google it.  If you meet a woman who thinks her job as an "Eve" is to tempt people to stray from the safe and quiet path, let her know that the job of tempting people is reserved for an entity that must have been jealous of God and His creation that he would try to dissuade the creation from staying in tune with their God-given nature that yearns for fidelity, wholesomeness, genuine nurturing, mutual respect, honor, commitment and community. God's grace for this knows no bounds. It leads to life. The frail ego as seen in a jealous entity also knows no bounds. It leads to death. The jealous entity was the first to desire to be like God, yearn more and more and more authority and to be equal with Him. This desire immediately separates one from God. The jealous entity as depicted as a serpent simply passed on his desire and anger to Eve. He really said "...follow me." After he got them off track, you don't see him in the picture and God takes over again.  No matter what, the Lord was not far away and gave them new directions; by God's grace.  Some pastors have asked why he didn't just bring a flood or something and start over.  They also take some time to explain the missing books of Genesis that explains the existence of the people of Nod. This usually happens after the difficulty in explaining the miracle of salvation in the human heart. If the miracle of the human heart is not enough, then google all the bible verses that mention the Gaza or  Bozrah. It is in the book of Amos.  People want you to watch movies that are to encourage you to believe in talking surf boards or some other kind of boards but you are not to believe in Leprechauns or a biblical talking cloud or pillar of fire. At least the pillar of fire encourages you to love your parents, to have children, to love your neighbor and to have a wife or husband. There are more people in the world whose human heart miracle has given them the courage to testify about their belief in the word of God. Leprechauns do not fair so well. But, you should buy the Shamrock shake anyway for that sense of unity.  Whether we find the books that explain the people of Nod or not, the miracle of salvation in the human heart is all the proof you need. It's enough for Billy Graham and millions of other men and women who can solve complicated equations and who also put up with the abuse that a bible believing person who desires one wife or partner may suffer. Some of them are Ph.Ds in engineering and could write excellent national television programming guides ( The odds are that people will still watch Tv all day even if Superman, Mickey Mouse  and the 24 hour unedited farm-life channel were the only three movie choices along with copious news and sports).  Who puts up with abuse like that unless they are a prize fighter for money ?  It is someone who has put all his faith in the experience or experiences that has led them to belief.  It's a miracle not unlike the miracle of child birth. They are powered or engined  by a great miracle of the human heart. The thing about that tree of the knowledge of good and evil is that in biting into it, Adam and Eve were brought to a place where they and their children and children's children could begin the journey of trying to be like God. God sent them to till, take some seed as given from the original garden and to farm. God sent them to learn something. It was the beginning of science. The first step in learning how to be like God was to plant and build a  garden or farm. The learning is science. When it comes to building a "one off" planet like ours, we are at the end of our scientific journey. The hope that there is another such planet may fuel our destructive tendencies where we fail to preserve our finite planetary resources or switch to other more abundant resources as we re-localize our energy supply, retrain and re-engineer our society to achieve human vocational equality. White men give out awards to non-white employees. It's not because of a black supervisor down the hall that the non-white guy or girl got the award.  Give the white, award granting upper manager some merit.   We may hope to destroy the planet(some do apparently; just to prove that the word of God is true) but the end of the science class is in realizing that only God could build it. Thank God. The desire to be equal to God is separation from Him but He will gladly lead us to follow Him and to imitate Him. Following and imitating Him is short of the rebellious desire to be equal. We can't rebuild the earth. But, we can imitate Him and steward it.  Destroying the planet is as close as we can get to trying to be equal with God. It is death. The desire is a pathway that is short of life. He came that we may have life and life more abundantly.