Help-me-learn writes..
The bible says that thru one man sin entered the world and thru one man sin was paid for. This is refering to the man Adam and the man Jesus.
But Eve was the first to sin. So why say thru Adam and not Eve? [/B]
Eph replies...
EVE first...Ehh...not really but only from the technical sence...Let's go look at Gen and see...
Gen 2:16:17 says what..? God commanded the MAN...( literally in the Hebrew it's "the Adam"...)...God told ADAM not to eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil...Notice at this time Eve wasn't even created yet..!
Gen 2:18..God decides to make Adam a helpmate...( I know..with help like that who needs enemies LOL
) But what is intresting is God according to the scriptural account..never told Eve not to eat from that tree...! God told Adam...
Gen 2:21 22 Eve is created....thats AFTER God told Adam about the tree...
Gen 3:3 ...( from here on out is MY thoughts on what MIGHT have happened )....We encounter Eve and she quotes God as saying "ye shall not eat of it..."neither shall ye touch it"..
Wait a sec...God never said they couldn't touch it..They could touch it all day long....What God said was don't eat from it...Satan knew what God had said..and he moved in on that mistake Eve had made....BUT in all fairness...it could have been ADAM that told her not to "touch it"...
It might have gone something like this...!
......Adam tells Eve....God said we can eat from every tree..except that one....Eve asks..Whats so different about that one..? Adam says..well I don't really know..but God said we shouldn't eat from it...So don't eat from it..as a matter of fact play it safe and Stay away from it altogether..don't go near it...don't eat from it..don't even touch it..OK...Eve says OK...!
See my point with that little made up story is EVE added something to God's word that God never had said...Satan knew Gods word and attacked that little mistake she made...By bringing doubt to Eve by saying.. GEN 3:4..Ye shall not surely die..!
GEN 2:6...says Eve "took" the fruit.....Now put alittle flesh and blood on whats going on here..She just got done saying she would die if she even touched it..and NOW she's holding it and she's still alive...She starts to "place her FAITH"..more in what Satan just told her.."ye surely won't die"...than what she had been told by ADAM ( at least thats how I see it unfolding for her )
Adam is standing right there with her the whole time this is happening and HE does nothing to stop her..thats according to GEN 2:6.."her husband WITH her"...
So Eve touches it and doesn't die..so she takes the next step and bites into it..BUT the sin hasn't been commited yet...Why..?
Because God told ADAM not to do that...and (( I think ))...Adam relayed that message to EVE....
So Eve was disobedient to Adam....which isn't a sin..BUT when Adam chomped down on that "fruit"...HE was disobedient to God...and thus the SIN was in the book...!