Cheryl Schatz

Adam’s motive has been one of the biggest mysteries.  The only thing we can work with is what is already there in scripture.  We do know that Adam did not defend God (when the serpent was accusing God of holding back) nor did he defend or protect Eve when the serpent was lying to her and Adam knew it was a lie.  We also know that God says that Adam dealt treacherously with him (Hosea 6:7).  Can we get his motive out of these facts?  I don’t think we can put Adam and the serpent developing a scheme together to find out what was in the fruit.  I think that Adam knew what was not in the fruit.  There were no seeds.  He wasn’t deceived and knew what God said.  I think the problem is not that Adam didn’t know the truth but that he didn’t act on that truth.  Why did he do that?  Perhaps there are more clues in scripture, but at this point, I don’t think that we can go further than what is already told to us.