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1 | Why did Adam eat the apple too? | Gen 3:6 | newbie123 | 135597 | ||
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2 | Why did Adam eat the apple too? | Gen 3:6 | Hank | 135609 | ||
Newbie - Adam ate the apple? The Bible doesn't call the tree an apple tree nor its fruit an apple, and neither should we! The Bible calls the tree "the tree of knowledge of good and evil" [Gen. 1:17] and that is what we should call it. ....... Janae has posted the appropriate Scripture, but Scripture itself doesn't dwell on the details of the why. We know the serpent lied to Eve [Gen. 3:4], deceiving her [Gen. 3:5], she fell for it, ate of the forbidden fruit and gave it to her husband Adam and he also ate of it [Gen. 3:6]. Verse 6 concludes by saying "she gave also to her husband WITH HER." I emphasize the words "with her" in order to suggest the possibility that Adam may have been present with his wife during her conversation with the serpent and instead of guiding his wife away from the serpent and his lies and toward the commands of God, Adam also may have liked the idea of becoming like God. Another possibility is that Adam was not present at Eve's encounter with the serpent, but that Eve spoke to her husband in glowing terms of her discovery of how to become like God, and that Adam bought her story. But these are mere possibilities garnered from a very scant set of facts. What we do know for sure is that both Eve and her husband disobeyed God, and at that moment became sinners. And they became afraid and hid themselves from the presence of the Lord [Gen. 3:8]. And they became something else too. They have the ignominious distinction of being the first buck passers in history! Adam blamed his wife for his sin. And Eve blamed the serpent for hers [Gen. 3:12,13]. Neither was willing to take personal responsibility for what they both had done. ...... And buck passing has continued from that day to this. It shows up in personal relationships, in business, in government, and even in the church. ...... We don't have to follow the example of Adam and Eve. We don't have to run and hide when we sin. We don't have to pass the buck. The Bible says, "If we confess our sins, He (God) is faithful and righteous to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness" [1 John 1:9]. --Hank | ||||||
3 | What was gained? | Gen 3:6 | newbie123 | 136095 | ||
Hank, regarding the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil, the beginning of the phrase says "And when the woman saw that the tree was good.." does this imply that her thought already perpetuated the sin? Does that also imply that they did not know what evil was? I believe that both Adam and Eve were very smart, so when they bit the fruit, did they gain more knowledge or did they gain wisdom? Moreover, they now carried the sin in their blood. So we carry that same sin in our blood. (?) And Jesus Christ died for us to allow cleansing of our blood of this sin? | ||||||
4 | What was gained? | Gen 3:6 | Hank | 136114 | ||
Hello again, Newbie - Sin takes many forms. Ultimately all sin, regardless of form, is disobedience of God's commandments. It is rebellion against God. We cannot presume to know what went on in the mind of Eve when she partook of the forbidden fruit and passed it on to Adam. Neither do we know why Adam took and ate the fruit that Eve offered him. So often in Scripture God paints in broad strokes, as He did in the Genesis account of the Fall. We simply don't have all the details. We are not told whether Eve and her husband were acting in open rebellion against God. We do know that God commanded them not to eat of the tree of knowledge of good and evil and told them they would surely die if they did. Scripture tells us that the serpent deceived Eve. He lied to her and she believed him. Had she not understood God's commandment, had she forgotten it, or did she both understand and remember yet believed the serpent instead of God? What about Adam? Same quesions, had he not understood God, had he forgotten what God said, did he want to please his wife more than God? We simply don't know the answers to all these questions. We do know that Adam and Eve disobeyed the commandment of God. Do all the details really matter? We know that they fell and were cast from Eden and through them sin and death came into the world: "for since by a man came death, by a man came the resurrection of the dead, for as in Adam all die, so also in Christ all will be made alive" [1 Cor. 15:21,22]. ..... Christ did not die merely to cleanse us from Adam's sin, "for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God" [Romans 3:23] and "just as through one man sin entered into the world, and death through sin, and so death spread to all men, because all sinned" [Romans 5:12]. By Adam's fall paradise was lost. By Christ's death on the cross, paradise is regained by those who believe in Him. Other Scripture references that I have used in preparing this post are the first three chapters of Genesis; 1 John 2:16; and 1 Timothy 2:14. ..... Soli Deo Gloria! --Hank | ||||||