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I don't believe the temptation of man was a test. God created man with a freedom of choice, His desire was that man would chose to follow Him willfully and not be disobedient. However, God is not ignorant. He knew before he created Adam and Eve what the results would be. And if not Adam and Eve, then it would have been someone else sooner or later, and probably sooner. As for this story indicating females are weaker and somehow inferior to males, I don't believe that was the intent. Afterall, God didn't choose Eve, the serpent (Satan) did. Why her instead of Adam? Perhaps it was merely the character Eve had that made her the easiest to tempt and had nothing to do with being male or female. Besides, the Bible doesn't indicate Adam putting up much resistance to the idea. ...I'm sure there's a husband/wife joke here somewhere. :-)
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