pinklight

You said “Adam was saying that God and the woman were at fault for the reason why he ate”

I agree with you here, but where is it in the text that saids this. What Adam said is true is it not? See the problem?

What problem? It’s not just what he said but ultimately why he said what he did – which was out of rebellion. Since he knew better, knew what he was doing when he went to eat, what was his reason then for bringing up God and the woman?

When you read Adam you read into it that he is blaming someone else,

Not true. The serpent did something to Eve, the serpent changed Eve’s mind by deceiving her. On the other hand God and the woman did no such thing to Adam. They didn’t do something to him. So why did Adam bring them up? They didn’t get him to eat, but the serpent got the woman to eat.
So I simply read the words of a man in rebellion. Do you claim that he was no longer rebellious when he answered God? Same thing with Eve. I simply read the words of a woman who was no longer deceived.

but when you read Eve you say the opposite. My point is though, neither of them said anything false. You are being inconsistent. What Adam said was true becasue God addresses him for ‘listening to his wife’. What Eve said was true becasue God addresses the serpent “because you have done this…”. So i find it odd that you assume something about Adam but not Eve. Deception does not exonorate her from being sinful.

No, the problem is that you are assuming about Eve. You are assuming that she was like Adam in her sin when the text tells us otherwise. She is being exonerated though btw, but just not from her sin. 🙂

The serpent was cursed for what it did – it deceived Eve. Therefore I think it’s pretty important that we get straight that there is a difference in the way Adam and Eve sinned, and a difference for why each said what they did. Eve had a reason for bringing up the serpent for what it did to her, but what was Adam’s reason for bringing up God and the woman when they did nothing to him?