Mark

Cheryl,

“Actually I just pointed out in my comment above that Eve could have rightfully blamed Adam when she did not. The question can be put back onto you, why did Eve not blame Adam when she knew that he had not protected her from the evil one?”

Nice try! Please deal with the exegetical points i raised. You points here are arguments from silence. First and foremost we ought to deal with what is revealed, not guess on what is not revealed. If you think i am wrong in the grammar then show me.
Now this is important since what follows in the narrative stems from the responses of the man and woman. You need to show me exegetically and grammatically how Adam’s motive was evil, and Eve’s good. Show me from the woman’s response grammatically how her motive is good. Why are things emphasised? Why use the Hiphal Stem for the verb?

“Then it seems to me that the blame is now put on God who only holds one fully culpable for their sin. While they both ate the spiritually poisoned fruit and because of that they started the process of death, God pronounced a judgment on only one. Why is that?”

This is an odd conclusion you have drawn. Who said God is to blame? Both are punished for their sin. It is odd that you think Eve is not judged for her part in the fall. I will deal with this exegetically once you deal exegetically with the other verses first. Since if you wont discuss my other points, there is really no point me going further exegetically.