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Gen 3:12 The man said, “The woman whom you gave to be with me, she gave me fruit of the tree, and I ate.”

Now this is true, is it not? The woman did give Adam the fruit, and God did give the woman to be with the man. So Adam has not lied here, but he has not admitted his own fault and tried to blame it on someone else.

Adam was saying that God and the woman were at fault for the reason why he ate. He wasn’t deceived. BUT God and the woman were not at fault! Adam was blaming God and a DECEIVED woman! LOL! Adam was not justified in blaming God and the woman. God doesn’t blame himself or the woman. Rather he blames Adam himself. God and the woman who were blamed were not guilty as charged by Adam but rather God was innocent and the woman was deceived. God never blames the woman as he blames the serpent and Adam by saying “Because you have”.

Adam did not confess the reason why he ate – rebellion. He was not deceived. Still in rebellion (unlike Eve who came out of her deception) he wrongly blames God and the woman. It’s true, Adam did not admit HIS OWN fault, that he rebelled, whereas Eve was DECEIVED so the same kind of admission is impossible.

Adam is also blamed by God in a very similar way:

Genesis 3:17 (NASB) Then to Adam He said, “Because you have listened to the voice of your wife, and have eaten from the tree about which I commanded you, saying, ‘You shall not eat from it’; Cursed is the ground because of you; In toil you will eat of it All the days of your life.

Notice again that God says “Because you have…” This is God’s blame and with the blame brings a curse. ”Cursed is the ground because of you”. The “you” here is singular masculine and the ground was cursed because of only one man’s sin.