Its not really a question, more of an observation/wonder. The serpent tempts Eve into eating the fruit. Then Eve gets Adam to eat some. Then their eyes were opened and they knew they were naked and all that stuff. I was just wondering how much time passed between when Eve ate the fruit and when Eve offered it to Adam. Scripture doesn't say where Adam was when the serpent got Eve to eat the fruit. So I was wondering why the effects of the fruit didn't kick in instantly when Eve ate the fruit. Because it seemed as though the effects didn't kick in until Adam ate and then they both instantly knew. Just some rambling thoughts.
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Lamentation 3:24 The Lord is all I have, and so in him I put my hope.
Those are good questions, and I've wondered about those things myself. This is what I think:
It says that Adam was "with her", so he couldn't have been too far away. They probably didn't know that they were naked until one pointed it out to the other. The "knowledge" that they got wasn't self-awareness, but a self-centeredness, since they were more concerned about their own nakedness than breaking God's law...which being self-centered does to someone.
Personal note: It was very likely that the "forbidden fruit" wasn't an apple, but a type of fig, since it was fig leaves that they tried to cover up their nakedness with. In that arid climate, the skirts that they tried to make the fig leaves out of wouldn't have been able to have been completed. The reason is that the second a fig leaf is pulled from its branch, it dies and begins to shrivel up and crumble to pieces within hours. This is why they ran and hid from God when they heard him coming: their skirts would have already disintergrated by the time that afternoon came.
All sounds very itchy to me. Why didn't they just run down to wal-mart and get some underwear? Just kidding. I don't always get the story, but not being a literalist, I think that this story is imagery only. It is about when God instilled into man knowledge, transforming us from an animal with no rational thought into a being that thinks and even perhaps has a soul. Question is: did it really happen literally just as it is written? or did man put his twist on a story that had been handed down for many years.
