Anyways, one thing I find interesting here is the excuses that Adam and Eve give to God when they are discovered. Adam blames his wife, though he fully made the decision to eat for himself even if he may not have been able to control her actions. He also tried to point the finger at God for giving him the woman! She in turn blames the serpent, or Satan. I wonder if the temptation took place in the short couple of minutes that it sounds like, or if it was an ongoing effort over a length of time. I'm also curious about how long Adam and Eve had been alive before they gave in to the serpent's urgings... again, a good question for God some day.
The other section that stands out in this passage is the curses God puts on all three of the participants. Eve's penalty hits especially close to home for me, since my wife is nearing the end of her pregnancy. All of the pain that she will have to go through - and has already had to deal with - is because of sin. Of course, sin's spiritual effects are much worse and more permanent, but it is still interesting to think of the enormous difficulties women have in childbirth as part of the curse... (shudder).
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I believe in the original Hebrew, Adam's defense lists himself last in blame, as if to distance himself entirely from the situation. The original master of the 'blame game', to which society, as a whole, seems to live by these days. I like your questions and look forward to the answers, as well.
As for the curses, it seems you hit the nail on the head with regard to child-birth. We men DO have it pretty easy, especially nowadays. It feels, to me, we cheat the curse, altogether, as it is not necessarily us who toil over the earth all the days of our lives, anymore. But rather those whose profession is to do so, for us. We simply pay for the goods, monetarily.
My opinion is that there is no doubt we would have done the same as Adam. The Bible doesn't say how long Adam lived in the Garden of Eden (as far as I remember). He could have lived hundreds of thousands of years before he ate the 'apple' or whatever it was.
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