Charis

I found Waneta’s comment #28 very insightful about the pure motives of Eve. http://strivetoenter.com/wim/2010/04/29/why-let-women-lead-bible-studies/#comment-11658

That is the first I have heard this, and I think Waneta has hit on the truth! But I am inclined not to judge Adam’s motives quite so harshly. While Adam was not deceived and did deliberately rebel (according to the testimony of Scripture), he was also pure before the Fall, and I wonder if he chose to “lay down his life for his wife”? Jesus, the second Adam, laid down His life for His bride, but He was doing so in submission to God rather than rebellion.

Perhaps Adam put his wife before God and decided that since she was going to die, he would join her in death?