| PCA-01 | The serpent’s opening materially reframes God’s abundant provision around prohibition. | High-confidence literary finding | 3:1 → 3:4 → 3:5 sequence. God: creation, provision, blessing, relationship, speech/reality correspondence, instruction. Serpent: distorted framing, contradiction, unsupported claimed knowledge; no disclosed comparable history. “Disclosed” must remain explicit. | |
| PCA-02 | The woman initially corrects the serpent and preserves God’s provision/boundary; temptation is not yet demonstrated. | High-confidence finding / negative finding / operational definition | 3:1 foregrounds prohibition broadly; 3:2 answers, “We may eat,” restoring the general permission already disclosed. Does not establish her complete internal state or immunity to later influence. The first recorded human response to competing representation preserves God’s provision. She understands the question, retrieves relevant prior information, corrects scope, represents provision corporately, identifies the boundary, and associates violation with death. Does not prove exhaustive accuracy of every detail she knows. Through 3:5 no attraction is narrated. In 3:6 the tree becomes good for food, desirable to the eyes, and desirable in relation to knowledge/wisdom gain. Uses the study’s operational definition of temptation as evidenced attraction/enticement. | |
| PCA-03 | The serpent escalates from reframing to unsupported contradiction and alternative explanation. | High-confidence literary and epistemic findings | 3:1 → 3:4 → 3:5 sequence. No demonstration, witness, safe-eating example, verified prior prediction, evidence of divine unreliability, or disclosed epistemic provenance. Does not establish that the serpent possesses no evidence outside narrated disclosure. | |
| PCA-04 | The serpent’s claims become influential without first becoming evidentially stronger. | High-confidence epistemic and methodological findings | No demonstration, witness, safe-eating example, verified prior prediction, evidence of divine unreliability, or disclosed epistemic provenance. Does not establish that the serpent possesses no evidence outside narrated disclosure. God: creation, provision, blessing, relationship, speech/reality correspondence, instruction. Serpent: distorted framing, contradiction, unsupported claimed knowledge; no disclosed comparable history. “Disclosed” must remain explicit. Serpent claims remain evidentially unsupported while becoming behaviorally consequential in 3:6. | |
| PCA-05 | Attraction toward the prohibited alternative first becomes visible in Genesis 3:6. | High-confidence finding / operational definition | Through 3:5 no attraction is narrated. In 3:6 the tree becomes good for food, desirable to the eyes, and desirable in relation to knowledge/wisdom gain. Uses the study’s operational definition of temptation as evidenced attraction/enticement. | |
| PCA-06 | Human agency remains throughout; what changes is how it is directed. | High-confidence narrative finding | Questions, contradiction, explanation, prospective gain; no narrated physical compulsion or forced feeding. Woman corrects, evaluates, takes, eats; humans perceive, know, construct, cover. Does not adjudicate later philosophical free-will systems. | |
| PCA-07 | The tree and nakedness demonstrate changed human relationship to materially unchanged reality. | High-confidence narrative finding | Same tree → changed evaluation/action; same nakedness → changed knowing/covering. 2:25 naked/not ashamed; 3:7 naked/knowing/covering. | |
| PCA-08 | Replicated Interpretive Action is structurally supported, while conscious imitation remains unproven. | Strong analytical finding / psychological mechanism remains a hypothesis | Serpent reframes God/boundary/consequence/knowledge; woman independently reevaluates tree; post-crossing humans reevaluate nakedness. Do not claim conscious imitation. Recurring interpretive architecture continues after serpent speech ceases. | |
| PCA-09 | Opened eyes and new knowing genuinely correspond with serpent predictions. | High-confidence finding | 3:5 prospective wording; 3:7 resulting opened eyes and “they knew.” | |
| PCA-10 | The acquired knowledge is experientially consequential but not exhaustively defined by 3:7. | High-confidence finding / exhaustive definition not authorized | Nakedness exists before crossing without shame; after eating, opened eyes/knowing lead to covering. Does not exhaustively define “knowledge of good and evil.” | |
| PCA-11 | Propositional correspondence does not by itself establish representational faithfulness. | Strong analytical and methodological findings | Eyes-opened and knowing predictions correspond; first narrated lived manifestation includes concealment of previously non-problematic nakedness. Serpent predictions partially correspond; the complete lived significance begins to reveal dimensions not contained in isolated proposition-checking. | |
| PCA-12 | The boundary stood between the humans and the entered experiential condition; protective purpose remains a hypothesis. | High-confidence effect / protective purpose remains a hypothesis | Before/after sequence. Boundary precedes and prevents entry into the condition while observed; God’s prior portrait includes proactive beneficence/protective care. | |
| PCA-13 | God’s prior beneficence and reliability are not narratively overturned before the humans act. | High-confidence synthesis / silence does not establish motive | Accumulated provision/reliability remains; serpent supplies reinterpretation rather than demonstrated counterevidence. | |
| PCA-14 | The humans’ changed perception of nakedness does not establish a prior defect in creation. | High-confidence negative finding | Positive Priority: naked/not ashamed precedes later covering; no bodily defect is newly narrated. | |
| PCA-15 | The first post-crossing response is self-remediation using Creator-provided capacities/resources. | Strong literary and synthesis findings | They sew fig leaves and make coverings; no other agent supplies the remedy in 3:7. | |
| PCA-16 | No narrated serpent assistance follows within the 3:7 boundary; motive for absence is unknown. | Textual finding / motive not authorized | No serpent explanation, comfort, provision, guidance, or remedy appears in 3:7. | |
| PCA-17 | The man’s motive is undisclosed and must not be reconstructed from the woman’s disclosed pathway. | Negative finding / motive and cognitive pathway undisclosed | The woman gives; he eats. No motive/evaluation is supplied. Disclosure asymmetry cannot be filled by psychological symmetry without evidence. | |
