pinklight

If, as is stated above in #390, Eve sinned by eating the fruit and breaking God’s command (1 sin) and we might say, by offering it to Adam and presenting a stumbling,tempting opportunity to him (second sin?-after all, Jesus had harsh words to say about those who cause others to stumble-i.e. little children), then Eve is at least half way or all the way to having sinned the same number of times as Adam, at this point, and this would certainly qualify her for a sin nature, too. I mean, one or two times-what’s the big difference when we are ‘developing a sin nature’?

Hi truthseeker,

But a deceived woman gave fruit to her husband. It’s not like this was a woman who knew what she was doing at the time she gave the fruit to her husband. Adam even knew that she gave him the fruit out of being deceived because he wasn’t deceived. Also God doesn’t blame the woman (by saying “Because you have” or “Because you have done this”) for giving the fruit to Adam, and this has to be because she was deceived. But he does blame Adam for listening to his wife and the serpent FOR deceiving Eve and the serpent was cursed for deceiving Eve. So what she did besides just eating – give the fruit to Adam out of deception doesn’t result in a blame of guilt by God and the reason why is because she was deceived. Now say it were Adamm who had offered his wife the fruit while not deceived – or place Eve in those shoes – God would have placed blame on the one who did that because they would have done so out of rebellion or knowing that what they were doing was wrong.

So The serpent was cursed for deceiving Eve but God did not curse the woman, punish her or blame her for giving fruit to Adam because she was deceived. But had she not been deceived and then given fruit to Adam, then yes, she would have been guilty of offering the fruit out of temptation or rebellion. Also Eve did not cause an innocent Adam to stumble since he wasn’t deceived.

And it’s not that Adam “developed” a sin nature. His choices just made for who he was.