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Eve did not technically sin, but like with everything female, it's complicated. Eve did not directly sin, as Paul describes it, she "fell into sin." 1Tim 2: 14And it was not Adam who was deceived, but the woman being deceived, fell into transgression. 15But women will be preserved through the bearing of children if they continue in faith and love and sanctity with self-restraint.(NASB)
Read Genesis and you will find the only commands to Eve were jointly issued with Adam was to be fruitful, multiply, and subdue the Earth. Nowhere recorded is God commanding Eve about what not to eat. Did God tell her, did she hear it from Adam? Who added the do not touch, Eve or Adam? We do not know for certain BUT it is clear that it was ADAM, not Eve, that directly rebelled. It was because of Adam, not Eve, that the ground was cursed and sin entered the world.
Also notice that God did NOT directly curse either Adam or Eve. Sure, their lives were made much worse, but they themselves were not cursed. This is pararell to how when Ham saw Noah naked, Ham was not cursed, but rather Ham's 4th son Caanan. God does not curse the redeemed, He curses Christ and everything around the redeemed; but for us "there is now NO condemnation."
Eve was deceived. She certainly did something wrong, but it was not a direct breaking of God's explicit command because God had not commanded her about the tree that we know of. She fell into sin in the same manner ALL creation fell into sin, because she was under Adam. thus ALL of Adam's seed, and all that was under the command of Adam was subject to this disaster.
Yet because Eve herself did not directly sin, her seed could theoretically be free of original sin. If it were possible for a woman to conceive a son without the aid of a descendant of Adam, well this second Adam would retain the "possible non peccare" and could theoretically be the spotless sacrifice that God demanded to atone for the sins of all the first Adam's race.
Of course, such a thing, a seed of a woman, is impossible; thus the serpent's head would never be crushed. I mean, really, who ever heard of a virgin birth? I just love Christianity. It is so into details. So the second Adam was born from an Adamic descendant but not of Adam.
All the religions of the world with a sense of sin, place sin at the foot of the woman save Christianity. Eve did NOT sin, she fell along with all creation, because of Adam. Thus it was from Eve's seed that the second Adam came to reverse that fall.
Now, I would not say Eve had no fault. Like with everything female, it gets very complicated, and I a mere male can't tease out just how guilty she was. All I know is she did NOT directly violate the command of God. Her husband, who was probably standing silently alongside as the conversation between her and the serpent unfolded, he sinned.
JR
Read Genesis and you will find the only commands to Eve were jointly issued with Adam was to be fruitful, multiply, and subdue the Earth. Nowhere recorded is God commanding Eve about what not to eat. Did God tell her, did she hear it from Adam? Who added the do not touch, Eve or Adam? We do not know for certain BUT it is clear that it was ADAM, not Eve, that directly rebelled. It was because of Adam, not Eve, that the ground was cursed and sin entered the world.
Also notice that God did NOT directly curse either Adam or Eve. Sure, their lives were made much worse, but they themselves were not cursed. This is pararell to how when Ham saw Noah naked, Ham was not cursed, but rather Ham's 4th son Caanan. God does not curse the redeemed, He curses Christ and everything around the redeemed; but for us "there is now NO condemnation."
Eve was deceived. She certainly did something wrong, but it was not a direct breaking of God's explicit command because God had not commanded her about the tree that we know of. She fell into sin in the same manner ALL creation fell into sin, because she was under Adam. thus ALL of Adam's seed, and all that was under the command of Adam was subject to this disaster.
Yet because Eve herself did not directly sin, her seed could theoretically be free of original sin. If it were possible for a woman to conceive a son without the aid of a descendant of Adam, well this second Adam would retain the "possible non peccare" and could theoretically be the spotless sacrifice that God demanded to atone for the sins of all the first Adam's race.
Of course, such a thing, a seed of a woman, is impossible; thus the serpent's head would never be crushed. I mean, really, who ever heard of a virgin birth? I just love Christianity. It is so into details. So the second Adam was born from an Adamic descendant but not of Adam.
All the religions of the world with a sense of sin, place sin at the foot of the woman save Christianity. Eve did NOT sin, she fell along with all creation, because of Adam. Thus it was from Eve's seed that the second Adam came to reverse that fall.
Now, I would not say Eve had no fault. Like with everything female, it gets very complicated, and I a mere male can't tease out just how guilty she was. All I know is she did NOT directly violate the command of God. Her husband, who was probably standing silently alongside as the conversation between her and the serpent unfolded, he sinned.
JR
