Why was physical hunger part of Eve's temptation in the garden?
Physical hunger made the fruit appealing as food, because if Eve had been stuffed full, she would not have eaten. Her natural appetite was in high gear; hunger joined the fruit’s beautiful appearance and the prideful desire to be wise as God, representing the lust of the flesh.
Les teaches that Eve was living in paradise with no sickness, death, disease, insects, or thorns, yet she was not satisfied, and Satan detected that. When the woman saw the tree was good for food, pleasant to the eye, and desired to make one wise, she took the fruit and ate. Les explains that she would not have eaten if she were stuffed full after a Thanksgiving meal, so she must have been a little hungry, with natural appetite in high gear. The eye saw something beautiful to eat, and Satan added that she would be wise as God. Those are the three areas mankind is still confronted with: the lust of the eye, the pride of life, and the lust of the flesh. Les notes the lust of the flesh does not always mean bad, since proper desires can be good, and Jesus tasted every temptation common to man.
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 unto her husband with her; and he did eat.
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How did Satan tempt Eve before she ate the forbidden fruit?
Satan had already approached Eve before Genesis 3:6, holding a conversation with her and tantalizing her with the promise that something more was to be gained if she listened to him and ate of the forbidden tree.