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Here's the relevant text: When no bush of the field was yet in the land and no small plant of the field had yet sprung up—for the LORD God had not caused it to rain on the land, and there was no man to work the ground, and a mist was going up from the land and was watering the whole face of the ground—then the LORD God formed the man of dust from the ...

The sin wasn't in eating the fruit, but in what it represented. It's interesting to examine the exact text of the commandment: 16 And the LORD God commanded the man, saying, Of every tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat: 17 But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou ...

I didn't get to vote or have any say in my forebears leaving their homelands and emigrating to the United States (or, The New World, as it was then known in Europe); nor did I have any say in whether or not to participate in their bloodline. Yet they represented me when they did it. If we take the Bible to be God's word, and we believe that God cannot lie, ...

Paul outlines this a bit in Romans 5 in constrasting the role of Adam as representative vs. Christ as representative (emphasis mine). Romans 5:12-21 12Therefore, just as sin came into the world through one man, and death through sin, and so death spread to all men because all sinned— 13for sin indeed was in the world before the law was given, ...

Adam was charged with a responsibility1 and he had an obligation to fulfill (which included protecting his wife). Yet he did nothing. The account of the fall in the garden includes the detail that he was at Eve's side2 the whole time and failed to fulfill that responsibility. He broke a covenant3. Did Eve sin? Sure. Was Adam ultimately responsible? Yes. ...

Genesis 3:6 (NIV) reveals that Adam was with Eve when she took the fruit. 6 When the woman saw that the fruit of the tree was good for food and pleasing to the eye, and also desirable for gaining wisdom, she took some and ate it. She also gave some to her husband, who was with her, and he ate it. Adam had the opportunity and authority to stop ...

Genesis 3 answers this question pretty definitively: Then the Lord God said, “Behold, the man has become like one of Us, knowing good and evil; and now, he might stretch out his hand, and take also from the tree of life, and eat, and live forever” Genesis 3:22 NASB Adam and Eve were not created with the knowledge of good and evil. They were ...

(assuming a literal Genesis interpretation) Genesis gives (to the best of my knowledge) no mention of a reason here. In the lack of further supporting scripture, "why not?" is probably as good a reason as any. Since no scriptural basis exists, one could just put it down to conveniece: she was nearby and alone available.

It must be noted that the Bible never explicitly answers this question, so our answer has to come from related observations we make from the text. However, we must admit that these observations are not explicitly taught from the Scriptures, so we must not be emphatic where the Scriptures are not. It is important, then, to identify what it is that we do ...

I Timothy 2:13-15 clarifies that Eve was deceived (the serpent deceived her into thinking she could draw closer to God by gaining knowledge, etc), but Adam knew full well what he was doing was wrong. I Timothy 2:13-15 For Adam was first formed, then Eve. And Adam was not deceived, but the woman being deceived was in the transgression. See also II ...

1 Cor. 15:22, 45 22 For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ all shall be made alive. . . . 45 And so it is written, "The first man Adam became a living being." The last Adam became a life-giving spirit. The specific reference is to obedience; The first Adam was the father of all men through the Flesh and disobeyed, and through him all of his ...

The story of the Garden of Eden is only 3 chapters in Genesis. These should be read thoroughly, for as Walter Bruggeman said, one cannot over interpret them. In a plain reading, however, the sense is that there was no one other than Adam and Eve. The idea that there were others has no basis and nothing to suggest itself. Indeed, Adam was alone, and God ...

This idea spawns from a number of statements that Brigham Young purportedly made, either in public and in private. For example, he was recorded as having said something like this in the Journal of Discourses, but the LDS Church does not officially accept any of the Journal of Discourses or cite it for doctrine because of erroneous scribing and other things. ...

There are a few places where Jesus and Adam are mentioned together. Two note-worthy passages are in 1 Corinthians and Romans: 1 Corinthians 15:22 (NIV) For as in Adam all die, so in Christ all will be made alive. Romans 5:12-21 (NIV) 12 Therefore, just as sin entered the world through one man, and death through sin, and in this way death came ...

The reason for Eve being tempted very likely has little to do with her gender. She was admiring the tree and the snake(satan) tempted her. Non-christian apocryphal texts(there is a link here) often paint Eve as weak against temptation, but these documents are not accepted as canon by any of the major christian denominations.

"Adam and Eve were not created with the knowledge of good and evil. They were innocent--not righteous, but innocent." Agreed. For Adam and Eve, a "knowledge" of Good and Evil was not imparted to them, but was their own creation. BEFORE Eve touched the fruit, it is said, Gen.3:6 "And when the woman saw that the tree was GOOD for food, and that it was ...

Remember that Eve was created as a helper to Adam and created from Adam. As a being created from Adam, Eve would have, in a sense, been further removed from God. Many ancient civilizations - including the one(s) to which the book of Genesis was written* - had the concept of emanations which basically subscribe to the idea that created things are subject to, ...

THE SPECIFICS OF THE ADAM-GOD TEACHING Wikipedia gives the following information regarding the specifics of the Adam-God doctrine in [this article]:1 Brigham Young's 1852 announcement ...the first recorded explanation of the doctrine was by Brigham Young, who first taught the Adam–God doctrine at the church's spring General Conference on April 9, 1852. ...

Something which I believe nobody has mentioned, in Genesis 5 Adam - either figuratively or not - passes on the broken image of God through the bloodline. Genesis 5:3 (emphasis added) When Adam had lived 130 years, he had a son in his own likeness, in his own image; and he named him Seth. Which is opposed to Adam being made in God's image and likeness. Oh, ...

The Orthodox have a different perspective on Adam which makes a lot of sense, at the cost of being a tad "mystical". http://web.archive.org/web/20091011031949/http://www.zephyr.gr/stjohn/sixdawn2.htm Put simply, Adam is not the biological ancestor of all humans, but God chose him as the representative of all creation, not just all humans, to be the first to ...

I don't think anything in the Bible or Christian theology says that Adam "represents" us in the sense that you are using the word, that is, that we are held responsible for Adam's actions. Rather, it says that Adam's actions brought sin and death into the world, and everyone since then has sufferred because of it. 1 Cor 15:21-22 "For since by man came death, ...

Many people take the narrative about the eating of the fruit, and indeed both trees (that of 'life', and that of 'knowledge of good and evil') as figurative. Some, including as C.S. Lewis, go farther and say that Adam and Eve may not have been literal people, either. The point they take from this narrative is simply "Humans chose to rebel against God." ...