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Based on the above, using Proverbs 30:20 to justify Serpent's Seed is eisegesis (which is a common method of interpreting scripture in message circles) and not exegesis<ref>Eisigisis is the act of reading an understanding, or an opinion into a biblical text, which may or may not be supported or evident by the text itself - in accordance with the person’s own presuppositions, agendas, and/or biases. This is the opposite of exegesis, which means to derive the meaning ‘out of’ the text.</ref>.
Based on the above, using Proverbs 30:20 to justify Serpent's Seed is eisegesis (which is a common method of interpreting scripture in message circles) and not exegesis<ref>Eisigisis is the act of reading an understanding, or an opinion into a biblical text, which may or may not be supported or evident by the text itself - in accordance with the person’s own presuppositions, agendas, and/or biases. This is the opposite of exegesis, which means to derive the meaning ‘out of’ the text.</ref>.


===How could the fruit of the tree be sex with Eve when the tree preceded her?===
==How could the fruit of the tree be sex with Eve when the tree preceded her?==


If the fruit of the tree represented a sexual act with Eve, then how could it have existed before Eve did?  It just doesn't make sense.
If the fruit of the tree represented a sexual act with Eve, then how could it have existed before Eve did?  It just doesn't make sense.