Hannah Thomas

I don’t see diverting at all in what she said. I think you are missing the connection!

He knew the deception was going on, and choose to go along with the program. He didn’t step up to his responsibility – that all of us would be expected by God to take if we were in his shoes. No need for mention of ‘roles’ regarding that aspect. He knew it wasn’t right, and did it anyway. That was sin when he ignored NOT doing what he knew God would expect of ANYONE – not just the role of ‘men’. The bible states Eve was deceived, and didn’t get the same clear picture.

It was his responsibility to step up – just as anyone else in his shoes would have been expected to – and he stayed silent instead. There is no reading ‘roles’ into it at all. It’s something God would have expected in anyone placed in the same position.

I’m personally confused as to why you aren’t grasping this. His knowledge was the deception going on – why would he NOT be responsible for not stepping up to mention it or speak out against it? All mankind got dinged for it! He wasn’t removed from the garden because he didn’t do some ‘man role’ – he was removed due to sin. He saw sin and didn’t take responsibility to do something about it. Gender, roles, authority, etc don’t have anything to do with this. Its just what happened – plain and simple. Nothing else to read into on that aspect it would seem to me.